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NYU Libraries Catalog Features

An overview of features in NYU Libraries' online catalog (search.library.nyu.edu).

Locate Buttons

“Locate” buttons are displayed on NYU Bobst onsite items. When a you click the button, you will be taken to Libraries' Call Numbers & Floor Maps webpage

Item details page of a record that is available in NYU Bobst Main Collection and has a Locate button towards the right, and is highlighted in a red box.

Citation Trails

Citation trails are links out from an article or book to lists of other articles or books. If you're interested in articles or books that are either cited in the one you're looking at, or are cited by other articles and books, you should look at citation trails.  

The catalog now offers citation trail features for a small portion of article records now accessible via the catalog.

  • a "find sources citing this" link (icon is upward point arrows) takes you to a list of other resources that are citing the article.
  • a "find sources cited in this" link (icon is downward point arrows) takes you to a list of resources the article cited.
  • Note that these are not necessarily  complete lists of citations

You can access the trail links from the item on the results page, or from within a record where it is available. 

Item results page:

Brief result display of an article. At the top right corner are the citation trail icons highlighted in a red box.

Item record's Citation section:

The citation section of a full item display of an article record, with links to find resources citing the article or cited in this article.

Search within a Journal

For journals available online you can search for articles within that journal under the "Search Inside" section of the item's details page.

Note that not all articles within that journal will be indexed. It’s more comprehensive to search for an article from the journal’s webpage itself, which you can do by following the "View Online'' links. 

Full item display for the journal Aging, with the "Search inside" section's search bar prompt displaying "Article title or keyword".

Expand Results

With the "Expand Results" tool, you can discover articles that NYU does not subscribe to, and therefore cannot provide full text access to the material. However, utilizing this tool can provide you citation information of possible resources that may be of help to you. 

You can turn on this feature by navigating to the filter options, and turning on “Expand results beyond NYU & Consortium Collections.”

Results page for the search phrase "disability AND higher education". At the top of the filter options is a toggle to Expand results beyond NYU & Consortium Collections, highlighted in a red box.

 

If I can’t access the material, why is this helpful? 

This is helpful because you can make interlibrary loan requests directly from within the article's record.