Presentation Author: Mary Alice Wade Forsyth Library FHSU

1. Find full-text articles, e-journals,
books, e-books, and much more,
all in one place!
Using Forsyth Library’s
New Search System: Primo

2. To access Primo, go to
www.fhsu.edu/library
Click the
gold
button
labeled
Forsyth
Library
Online
Catalog

3. Select the collection you want to search
Library Catalog: Books, e-books,
print and e-journals, CDs, DVDs,
Gov’t Docs, etc.
Article Databases: Full-text
articles from library databases
Digital Collections: Digitized
items including FHSU Master’s
Theses, historical photographs,
Reveille Yearbooks, and more
Search It All: Search
across all 3 collections at
once.

4. Library Catalog search for
holistic nursing
44 results, of which 3 are available online
and 41 are available in the library
Use the
limits in
this
pane to
focus
your
search
by
resourc
e type,
topic,
date,
etc.

5. Click the Details tab to find out more
about each item.

6. Limiting results to “full-text online” brings
up 2 online journals and an e-book.
Click “View It” to
find the link to the
full-text journal
articles or e-book

7. Changing our search to the Article Databases
collection brings up over 16,000 full-text articles
Limit to
peer-
reviewed,
by article
type, by
topic,
date, and
more
Click “Details” to see the
abstract, and “View It” to find
link(s) to the complete article.

8. Click “Advanced Search” to add terms, select
search types and limit by date or year.

9. Click the star beside a title to save it
to your e-shelf
You can use this feature
as a guest, but once you
close out of Primo, these
items will be lost.
Sign in with your
TigerTracks to save items
on your e-shelf after you
close out of Primo.
Signing in also allows you
to renew your items
online.

10. Once you have signed in, your items
will be saved to your e-shelf.
You can
create
folders to
organize
your items
You can make notes, and select
items to print or e-mail to yourself.
Click the My Account tab to renew
items you have checked out

11. Questions?
Click “Help” in the upper
right corner
of the screen, or
contact us
at 785-628-5283 or
refserv@fhsu.edu
We’ll be glad
to help J