SULAIR Improves Access to Databases and Articles

On November 13, 2006, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) is upgrading its Databases and Articles website to offer improved access to a wide variety of research resources in most subject areas. New features include a keyword search box and browse by subject categories.

On the new page, http://library.stanford.edu/sulapp/databases/index.jsp, you can choose to either browse by title or subject, or search by keyword. The titles listed now include descriptions that you can choose to hide (default) or display (click on '+" or click on 'Show all descriptions'). 

Browse by Subject : Click on one of the approximately 50 subject categories to see a list of databases related to that subject. For example, choosing "Biological Sciences" shows a result of 40 databases.

Browse by Title : Select "Browse by Title" for an alphabetical list of titles. If you want to see all the titles, change the "Results per page" setting to "All." 

Keyword Search : Try this when you want to search for databases across multiple subjects, or when the subject you are looking for is not one of those listed. In the "Search this list" box, enter any number of words to find databases with those words in their titles or descriptive data, or you may restrict the search to titles only by selecting that option.

For example, a keyword search for title "french language" retrieves 1 database that has both the words "french" and "language" in the title. The asterisk '*' is the truncation symbol. So searching for the list by all fields for "french language*" retrieves a result of 20 databases that have the word "french" and any word beginning with 'language' anywhere in the title or description.

The new website is kept up to date with changes and additions by a nightly extract from the Socrates records for the databases. For the remainder of Fall Quarter, there will be a link to the previous Databases and Articles website, but that website will not be kept up to date with changes or additions.

Please let us know your comments and suggestions for the new website by clicking on the “Feedback” link at top of the page, following the word “Databases.”