The UCD Digital Library provides a rich environment for resource discovery, exploration and use. To best take advantage of it, please refer to the help topics below.
This is a screenshot of the Home page, which contains many navigational options for exploring the UCD Digital Library and its collections. You can return to this page from all of the other pages by clicking on UCD Digital Library in the upper left hand corner.
All of the pages are responsive and will adjust to display correctly on desktops, tablets and smartphones. The following image is a screenshot of the Home page on a smartphone. The navigation options are available on smartphones from the button with the three horizontal lines.
The navigation menu is also available from every page. Each option, which has a inverted triangle beside it, contains more options. Simply hold the curser over the menu option and the sub-options will appear. Click on a sub-option to go to the page.
Sometimes you will see Quick Links on the lefthand side of the screen (for example, the Help page). The options in these change, depending on the context. They are usually used in conjunction with collapsing panels (see the next section).
Sometimes there is a lot of information on a page, so we have broken the text up and placed it in panels. These panels open and close, simply by clicking on the blue panel header. The panels move up and down as you navigate through them.
There are a few ways to browse through our collections.
Leave the search box blank and click the green search button. This will show all of the collections and objects in the UCD Digital Library.
Using the top navigation menu on each page, click on Collections and you can browse using one of the following options:
Using the top navigation menu on each page, click on Map and you can browse using one of the following options:
Just under the Search Box on the homepage, there are a number of 'quick browse' options to explore:
These topics relate to the image on display, and either bring to specific collections, or triggers a suggested search for you. Currently we have:
There are several ways to search for content in the UCD Digital Library, and these are described below. The search box is visible on all pages, with a larger search box present on the Home page.
To search, type one or more words into the search box at the top of the main page and click on the go button, or press enter on your keyboard.
When you submit a search, you will then see a page (or pages) that provide a list of results matching your search criteria.
By default, UCD Digital Library returns 10 results per page, and a short summary of the text around the terms for which you searched. If there is more than one page of results you will see the number of pages at the top and bottom of the screen. To move on to the next page of results click on the next button or click on the number of the page you wish to view.
You can use Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT to refine your search results.
Using the AND function when searching will allow you to get results which contain both words you are searching for. To use the AND function just type the two words in the search box. For example Galway Dublin
The description of all of your search results will contain both words.
Using the OR function when searching will allow you to find items that contain either one or other of the words for which you have searched. For example, Galway OR Dublin
This search has retrieved all records which contain the words Galway or Dublin.
You can use the NOT function to exclude words from your search. For example, Galway NOT Dublin. This will retrieve all the items which contain the word Galway in the description except those which also contain the word Dublin.
You can also combine AND, OR and NOT searches. For example, if you would like to search for results that contain the subject of education in either Galway or Dublin, you should type (Galway OR Dublin) education in the search box.
You could also use this combined AND and OR search in the following way. To search for the terms Education or School in either Galway or Dublin you should type (Galway OR Dublin) (Education or School).
Placing quotes around a phrase will search for the exact phrase. For example "Blackhall place"
The UCD Digital Library uses the Apache Solr search platform, which allows for more advanced search options.
You can search for words within 3 words from each other. For example: dc.title:"Michael Collins"~3. This searches for Michael and Collins within 3 words of each other in a Title field. You can raise or lower the distance between words.
You can search for a date range by using the following syntax:dc.date:[1580 TO 1625]
Within any field, you can use wildcard matching. dc.title:re?na napul*
If you have a specific term that you wish to eliminate from the search, you can do so by choosing the field (e.g. dc.language), choose the term, and prefix the search query with a minus symbol. -dc.language:Latin
Equally, you can limit your search to only include a specific term. +dc.language:Latin
dc.date:[1580 TO 1599] AND dc.coverage:Madrid
Once you have conducted a search, you can refine your results by using the Refine Search menu to the left of the screen on the results page.
Click on each refine search option (also known as a facet), to reveal the option subsets which can be used for refining your search results. The options are:
Click on the options to refine your search. The options will be added to area containing the search terms. These can be deleted using the small x button on each term. You can add multple options to each results set.
By clicking on an option subset, your results will be reduced. The following example was achieved by clicking on the still image option under the Resource type option.
To view the contents of any of the collections, click on the collection title. This will open a description of the collection.
For every collection, there are Description, Content and Rights panels. For some collections, there is also a Gallery option. The default panel is the Description panel, which is open when you click to view the collection. To minimise (i.e. close) it, simply click on the blue title bar.
To see the list of digital objects (scans or audio), click on the Contents panel. Each item is usually numbered, with a truncated description, and a link to view.
To see the digital image with its full description, click on the view link.
You will now be in the digital object record. This contains descriptive information about the object and you will be able to open a larger version of the digital item. Different types of content will give you different options to view the item on screen.
The text images are presented as a PDF document.To view the text images, click on the image thumbnail or the View PDF button, which will open the document as a PDF. From here, the document can be saved and printed, by clicking the right button on your mouse. You can also zoom in and out, as required.
If the item you wish to look at is a photograph, click on the options "popup view" or "fullscreen view".
These viewers makes it possible to increase or decrease magnification of an image (+ and - buttons), and to navigate around the image (click and drag the image).
If you use the "fullscreen view" option, you will have to use the Back button in your Browser to return to the UCD Digital Library.
The Digital Library makes it possible to save certain kinds of digital content through a download feature.
Materials downloaded may be used in accordance with the Access Conditions or licence associated with an individual item. (Information specific to individual items appears at the bottom of the page describing the item; general information on usage and usage permissions is found on the Terms and Conditions page.)
When downloadable content is present, a link is provided in the toolbar at the top left-hand side of the page:
For digital images, options are provided for downloading a thumbnail image (120 pixels long side) or a larger image suitable for use in slide presentations (720px long side). Some additional options are presented to authenticated UCD users.
When a selection is made, the image will be sent as a download and you will be prompted for some type of response; each browser handles downloads differently, but in general the file will be saved to your computing device and you will be prompted to view it, save it, or take some other action.
Text documents can also be downloaded for local use. In general, text documents available for download are PDF files, for which the Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed on your local computing device. In some cases, documents are available in other formats, such as Microsoft Office formats, which also require specialised applications software to view. Text documents encoded with TEI (the markup language of the Text Encoding Initiative) can be downloaded either as PDF or XML-encoded text.
To share a page on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Pinterest, select the appropriate icon within the share menu. This is located on the right-hand side of the screen, under the search box.
The export citation function applies to the collection description page and the page which describes an individual item.
To export a citation, first click on the drop down menu which is at the top left of the page above the description of the collection or the item. Then click on the software which you are using (Zotero, EndNote, BibTeX, Mendeley or RefWorks) and export the citation.
Information about BibTeX:
Author names and editor names are formatted according to AACR2 rules, and may not be formatted in accordance with BibTeX recommendations.
Information about RIS:
