Library collections today contain a mix of print and digital publications, as well as other media forms such as audio, video and micro films. Some of the materials are available on the shelves in the library and some are accessible through databases to which employees and students at the university have access. Below, we introduce two search tools for library collections.

Super Search (Primo)
Libris
Material acquired before 1976

Super Search (Primo)

The search box on the university library website is often referred to Super Search (or Primo, which is the name used by the provider). Here you can search for all printed resources available at the university library that were acquired after 1975. A search in Super Search will also provide results from all the databases that the university library subscribes to: articles, e-books, conference papers, reports, etc. This means that you can search for, e.g., a book title or an article in a journal.

Super Search web

In the search box you type your search terms. Do not forget that you can search for phrases using quotation marks.
You can limit the search results to only include printed books or textbooks. This is particularly useful when you search for a book title and most of the top search results are reviews of that book.
Go to Advanced search to limit your search to particular fields, such as Author or Title.
You can limit the search results by e.g. publication type or year.
Click on the title in the search results to get more information about the publication.
Click on "Request or reserve" to see where you can find a printed book or journal. You can request it to a particular library or you can reserve it in case it is not available at the moment. Click on "Full Text Online" to come to the full-text.

Libris

Libris is the national library catalogue and contains information about the printed material (e.g. books, journals, dissertations) and some electronic material (primarily e-books and journals) that the Swedish academic libraries and some public libraries hold in their collections. If you need a book or article in a journal available at another library but not in the Gothenburg collections, you can request an interlibrary loan.

In Libris you search for:

the book or journal title, not directly for articles in journals. Some book chapters are indexed separately.
authors
subjects
library classification (browsing possible)

Some subdatabases are available through Libris, e.g. KVINNSAM (women's history and some gender studies), Queerlit and Swedish Sami Bibliography.

Libris website

Material acquired before 1976

For locating older material at the library (acquired before 1957), you can perform an author or title search in the Katalog - 1957 database or (for much of the material) a subject search in Libris. Some materials are also searchable in Super Search (e.g. journals that have continued to be published after 1957). If needed, you can also go to the card catalogue at the Humanities Library to perform a subject search. The Humanities Library is also where you find the card catalogue that covers the print acquisitions between 1958 and 1975. On the library website there is more information about finding books and the card catalogues.

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