A short guide to the various catalogs at Lund University Libraries: Libris, LUBsearch and Lovisa.

1. Libris, LUBsearch or Lovisa?
Which one should I use?
Let’s see if we can explain
the differences!

2. Libris, The Swedish university and
research libraries search service

3. Libris
http://libris.kb.se/
• Find books, theses, journals, music, e-books, etc.
• Useful when you are looking for an overview of information in
a specific field of interest
• You scan the holdings of the academic libraries in Sweden but
it is also possible to find books in Lund and at the RWI Library
• Note that you cannot access all of the e-resources from Libris.
You might have to use LUBsearch to get full access

4. LUBsearch, a common access
point to all the resources in
the Lund University Libraries

5. LUBsearch
http://www.lub.lu.se/
• All library resources avaliable at Lund University Libraries in one
place
• Find articles, journals, theses and books
• Find databases, eJournals and eBooks and retrieve them online
• Use your StiL/Lucat account to get access, it does not matter where
you are
• Note that you get many double hits and that can be confusing and
make it difficult to grasp

6. Lovisa, the common catalogue for
Lund University Libraries

7. Lovisa
http://www.lub.lu.se/
• Search for books, journals, doctoral dissertations, reports, ebooks and e-journals
• Apply for a library card
• Renew your loans online
• Note that you cannot
search for articles in Lovisa

8. The pros and cons
• All three search methods are useful
• Lovisa works well to locate books within Lund but you cannot
search for articles. To renew loans you must use it!
• When trying to locate books in LUBsearch you automatically
end up in Lovisa
• In LUBsearch you can locate all kinds of material but you may
encounter a lot of duplicate matches

9. • Libris is easy to use and it provides a lot of possibilities for
advanced searches but if you find online material you might
have to switch to the local Lund catalog to get access to it
• Libris provides you with the correct citation of many different
reference systems
Did you get it? If not, never hesitate to ask a librarian close to
you.
With best regards from
Karl Adam & Lotta
Librarians at Raoul Wallenberg Institute
http://rwi.lu.se/library/