research guides: getting started with omni: focus results using filters

filters to focus results

sort by

results are automatically sorted by relevance.

frequency of matching search words
a value score (query words in author, title, subject, plus date)
proximity of search words to one another

if you sort by the newest date, you lose the relevance ranking.

availability

"peer-reviewed" limits results to content that has gone through an academic peer-review process.

“open access" limits results to content that is freely available whether or not you are logged in to the lakehead’s network. it may also be peer-reviewed.

available in lakehead's library means physically available and includes books, dvds, posters, kits, artifacts, etc.

resource types

resource types are listed by frequencies and include:

articles
audiovisual
books & ebooks
book chapters
conference proceedings
data sets
images
maps
newspapers
scores
reference entries
reviews
technical reports
theses & dissertations
videos

move the cursor to the left of the list to reduce your results to specific resource types. move your cursor to the right and click on the red check mark to exclude resource types from the results set.

publication date

input a specific date range and "refine".

subjects

includes library of congress and medical subject headings and subject tags from article databases.

search results can be narrowed through selection or exclusion of multiple headings.

author/creator

includes principal authors, corporations, and government agencies such as the ontario ministry of natural resources and the canadian wildlife service.

omni libraries

physical holdings of the 16 partner libraries are listed here. you can request print books through the my request option.