This handout accompanies the workshop slides "Beyond the Paywall: Repositories as sources of Supply" also available on SlideShare. It was part of a workshop run for interlending and document supply staff at the Interlend 2011 conference in Durham, UK June 28th.

2. Search for with the exact phrase: ain’t we all the same

3. There should only be a few results

4. Select the item by B Green and CJR Willmott – which is available in the Leicester Research Archive (it’s a book)

6. There are a lot of results from this search which makes spotting the one you want tricky. However, in this case if you can select the first one this happens to be the correct item.

7. Try searching again by including the author surnames as well: ain’t ee all the same willmott green

8. Again, while you have found the correct item there are still a lot of irrelevant results

9. Now try using Google search command language to force it to phrase search: “ain’t we all the same” willmott green

11. Search for Title: ain’t we all the same

12. Only one result is returned. Click on the title link from the result.

13. As you can see this is actually the publisher’s page about the book, not the open access version

14. Go back to the BASE results page (or research for the item) and look at the record more closely

16. There may be a pause before the first 6 results are shown – including the right article

17. The percentage figure given is the closeness of match between the search and the item retrieved.

18. Clicking on the link displays the Document Details and provides the link to take you to the repository document in question

19. Now repeat the search but set Document Type to Book Part

20. This time there are much fewer results, but this does include the right one still.

22. Enter the Author contains: brown, s

23. Start the search – there are far too many results to sort through

24. Return to the Simple Search and search for:

25. Author contains: brown, s

26. University: Sheffield

27. While Dr Brown’s thesis is visible, there are also a lot of false positives displayed.

28. Return to the Simple Search and search for

29. Author contains: brown, s

30. University: Sheffield

31. Title contains: synthetic aperture radar

32. This time there are only two results, both which are right. However, only one of these contains the link to the Ethos version of the paper.

34. This returns over ninety documents. Let’s switch to the Advanced Search.

35. Then Search for:

36. brown selecting Author’s last name

37. Sheffield selecting Institution name

38. This time only 27 documents were returned, and iof you browse down the page you should be able to spot the right one.

39. Try another Advanced search

40. synthetic aperture radar in the Thesis Title

41. Sheffield selecting Institution name

42. Limit the search to items Available for immediate download

43. There are two results that you can download – but you must have registered and logged into Ethos before you can do this!

44. If it is available on the local (institutional) repository there should also be a link here. In this case this thesis is not archived by Sheffield.

46. You can search for the titles that DOAJ indicates are open access

47. Try searching for the Journal Plos Biology

48. Now go back to the home page and search for an Article. Search for the word weasel in Title

49. There is only one result. Click Full Text to view it.

50. This takes you to the open access journal where it is easy to open, download or just read the article.Gareth J JohnsonDavid Wilson Library, University of Leicester June 2011<br />