Basic Guide

A basic guide to SOLO including coverage; signing in and passwords; searching and browsing options; finding out which libraries hold an item; ordering from the closed stack; placing reservations; connecting to e-books, e-journals & electronic legal deposit items; and how to renew your books >view the basic guide

SOLO Manual

Coverage

• What's on SOLO - coverage

Books & E-Books: Searching, browsing and accessing

• Standard search for a specific book
• Advanced search for a specific book
• Browsing A-Z indexes for authors, titles and subjects
• Searching for materials on a topic

Journals & Articles:  Searching, browsing and accessing journals

• Finding journals and journal articles

Specialist materials: Searching, browsing and accessing specialist materials

• Early printed book and rare books
• Book auction catalogues
• Electronic Legal Deposit (eLD)
• Films
• Maps
• Music
• Official Papers including parliamentary, government and international intergovernmental papers

Your SOLO account: ordering items from the stack, reserving items, renewals and scan and deliver

• Signing on to SOLO and passwords
• Ordering items from the closed stacks
• Delivery times for closed stack items
• Reserving an item which is out on loan
• Ordering an electronic copy using Scan and Deliver
• Renewing your books and your account

Added Features:  Exporting to Endnote, RefWorks and other reference managers; emailing, printing and saving items; setting up email alerts and RSS feeds

• Exporting to reference management software (Endnote, RefWorks etc)
• Emailing, printing and saving items to e-shelf
• Saving searches & setting up email alerts / RSS feeds

Getting help

• FAQs
• Getting help and providing feedback

Trying to find SOLO? http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Chat to a Librarian:

Email a Librarian:  Use our Ask an Oxford librarian service.  Alternatively for detailed help with searching in your subject area please contact your subject librarian.

SOLO workshops - Book a place at our Getting Started workshop.

Items which are not held in Oxford? - If you wish to use an item which is not held in Oxford, it may be possible to request an interlibrary loan

Catalogue errors - Please report any errors or correctionsto the Bibliographic Maintenance Team.

SOLO Feedback - Please use the SOLO feedback form to tell us what you think about the interface and the general SOLO user experience.