Refine Search Results

The Refine Search Results option allows you to refine your search by setting a number of limiting factors, such as Search Index (unique indexes such as ISBN, ISSN, Barcode etc are excluded from the available list), Branch, Year of Publication range, Publisher and Place of Publication, Author and one or more Material Types and/or Collection Types.

After the refine search criteria has been entered and selected, click on the REFINE button. The matching entries for the refined search will then be displayed on the Search Results screen.

A Search Set is created for each search in the current session including any refined search, and these display in the selection field in reverse order, so that the last search you did is displayed at the top of the dropdown box. The entries in the Search Set dropdown box can also be selected again and search criteria changed or added and the Refine button selected again. If you wish to clear the search sets currently saved, click on the Clear Search Sets option on the menubar. This will clear all stored search sets, including the Refine Search search sets, any Hierarchy or History search sets, and any other search sets that may be being stored for the session.

It is also possible to refine a search using the Facets The LIBERO WebOPAC has the optional facility to quickly refine a search by a number of parameterised Facets direct from the Search Results page. Facets can be setup for Authors, Subjects, Publication Year, Material Types, Collections, Language and Locations. The maximum number of terms to display for each Facet is setup by the Library, as well as the number of terms to display when the Show more option is selected. If Facets have been enabled, each search results set is analysed and the terms for each facet displayed down the right-hand side of the Search Results page, with the terms with the most hits being displayed first. The number of hits for each term is displayed after the term. Each term is hyperlinked - clicking on a term in the Facet listing will run a search for that selected term. Clicking on the Show more option will add the parameterised number of terms to the existing display. feature as displayed on the Search Results page.

Note: The Material Types and Collection Types are grouped and named by your library into the 9 available fields. To cater for electronic resources and other material where a physical copy may not exist, records with no holdings will also be displayed in a search that is refined by Branch.