{"id":1366,"date":"2010-09-20T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2010\/09\/20\/au-library-has-unveiled-a-new-unified-search-searchbox\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T02:50:00","slug":"au-library-has-unveiled-a-new-unified-search-searchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2010\/09\/20\/au-library-has-unveiled-a-new-unified-search-searchbox\/","title":{"rendered":"AU Library Has Unveiled a New Unified Search &#8211; SearchBox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/library\/news\/searchbox.cfm\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 200px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_YmvRDoZMb-k\/TJgd4P-vlpI\/AAAAAAAAADU\/owjiZtFgSno\/s320\/search+box.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519194195542120082\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Have you ever wanted to search the library\u2019s web resources all at  once? Find both books and articles with just one search engine? Your  dream is very near reality because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/library\/\">AU Library<\/a> has added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/library\/research\/index.cfm\">SearchBox<\/a>. With  SearchBox, library researchers can search simultaneously the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=First\">ALADIN  Catalog<\/a> and approximately ninety percent (yes, 90%!) of the library\u2019s  electronic resources, including journal, magazine, and newspaper  articles in databases. \u201cSearchBox is the most revolutionary and amazing  new development since the library went online two decades ago,\u201d says one  longtime AU librarian.  <\/p>\n<p>For students and faculty, research will be much faster and easier  because they can conduct Google-style searches of the library\u2019s vast  array of electronic resources. These resources are not available through  a regular public Google search because the resources are privately paid  for by the library through subscription fees. SearchBox also covers the  consortium-wide holdings of the ALADIN Catalog and the digital  repository, American University Research Commons. The only resources  that the SearchBox engine cannot currently search are some statistical  and financial databases. Those databases can still be searched  individually. In fact, all databases can still be searched individually,  which is particularly important to researchers who want to execute more  sophisticated or complex searches that take advantage of specific  database features.<\/p>\n<p>SearchBox is supported with material from 6,800 publishers, 94,000  journal titles, and 550 million indexed items\u2014numbers that increase  daily.  It has many powerful features that will help researchers. For  instance, researchers can limit search results to full text or to  peer-reviewed\/scholarly journals or both. The default for displaying  search results is relevancy ranking, but the results can also be  displayed in ascending or descending order by date of publication. Other  limits include subject, content type, and language. Individual items  can be saved and displayed in selected citation formats. Results can  also be exported to citation management software such as EndNote. Unlike  the ALADIN Catalog or most current databases, SearchBox can also  correct for spelling. For instance, if a researcher mistakenly types  \u201cHumon rights,\u201d SearchBox will query, \u201cDid you mean human rights?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  Using SearchBox is easy and highly intuitive, but as always,  researchers may wish to contact a reference librarian if questions  arise.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted to search the library\u2019s web resources all at once? Find both books and articles with just one search engine? Your dream is very near reality because AU Library has added SearchBox. With SearchBox, library researchers can search simultaneously the ALADIN Catalog and approximately ninety percent (yes, 90%!) of the library\u2019s electronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[115,210,293],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","category-news","tag-education","tag-library-information","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}