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• What is The English Short Title Catalogue?
• Accessing English Short Title Catalogue
• Searching English Short Title Catalogue
• Modifying your search
• Displaying your results
• Starting a New Search
• Saving your results
• Requesting a search item from another library
• For more information

  Connect to English Short Title Catalogue

WHAT IS THE ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE?

ESTC -- English Short Title Catalogue (EST) An invaluable research tool for scholars interested in the English language, literature, and culture, ESTC is now easy to search and available worldwide through RLG's Eureka search service. This file provides online descriptions of English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801. (Previously known as the Eighteenth-century Short Title Catalogue, ESTC was enhanced and renamed in 1994, with the addition of nearly 75,000 records for works published before 1701. The file continues to be updated and expanded.)

Eureka is also available to the Yale community via telnet from any computer with a web browser and a telnet client at the URL:telnet://libinfo.cis.yale.edu:21294

ACCESSING THE ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

Eureka on the Web can be accessed from the computers located in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave, from all public terminals on campus, and from any Yale computer (including remote dial-up connections) with a web browser at the URL:http://www.library.yale.edu/cgi-bin/eureka.scr. From Databases & Article Searching click onE from the alphabetical list. Scroll down toEureka.

To Open

1. CLICK on Connect to Eureka on the Web.
2. CLICK on theSelect a File link.
3. SELECTEnglish Short Title Catalogue from the pull-down menu.
4. CLICK on theselect icon. This will take you automatically to the simple search option.

SEARCHING THE ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

To Search

Simple Search

1. ENTER a search term in the blank text box.
2. SELECT the type of search you would like to use (keyword, author, title, etc.)
3. CLICK on theSend icon.

Advanced Search (Multiple fields)

1. ENTER your search terms in the blank text boxes.
2. SELECT the types of searches you would like to use.
3. SELECT an operator (And, OR, And Not) to combine your searches.
4. CLICK on theSend icon.

DISPLAYING YOUR RESULTS

To Display Your Results

1. CLICK on either theNext or thePrevious icon to move through the records.
2. CLICK on the checkboxes of the works you would like more information for.
3. SELECT eitherLong Display orRecords Display from the pull-down menu.
4. CLICK on theSend icon.

• Long Display includes details from records and a list of holding libraries.
• Records Display includes one line for each item in you result, with date of publication. Records are sorted by author, then title, then date.
• Locations Display is not useful in this file.

MODIFYING YOUR SEARCH

To Modify Your Search

Limit

1. CLICK on theLimit icon.
2. Select a limit type, eitherDate,Language orCountry.
3. ENTER or SELECT limit terms, dates, countries, etc.
4. CLICK in theNot checkbox to limit search to records without the limit term(s).
5. CLICK on theApply icon

Expand

• RETURN to a Headings dislay and select other headings.

STARTING A NEW SEARCH

To Start a New Search

• CLICK on theSearch icon at the top or bottom of the page.

SAVING YOUR RESULTS

To Print or Email Your Results

1. CLICK on theExport icon.
2. SELECT the records and the format you want.
3. CLICK on theOK icon.
4. If everything is right, click on theOK icon again. A new browser window will open.
5. USE your browser to print, email, or download.
6. SEE the handout at the Reference Desk in SML entitled " Printing and Downloading from Public Workstations" or click on this link.

LOCATING AN ITEM IN THE LIBRARY

To Locate the Search Item in the Library

To determine if Yale owns the records found in Eureka on the Web, do a title search for the name of the journal in the OPAC database in Orbis. Orbis can be found from the computers located in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave, from all public terminals on campus, and from any computer with a web browser athttp://www.library.yale.edu/databases. If you are looking for a pre-1977 citation that does not appear in Orbis, check in the SML Name-Title Card Catalog for the name of the record.

REQUESTING A SEARCH ITEM FROM ANOTHER LIBRARY

To Request a Search Item from another Library

1. If aRequest icon appears with a listing, then it is possible to obtain it through interlibrary loan.
2. CLICK on theRequest icon.
3. FILL out the interlibrary loan form and press theSend icon.

FINDING MORE INFORMATION

• For more information
• SEE the librarian at the Reference desk in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library
• CALL 432-1775 or 432-1780.
• EMAILsmlref@yale.edu
• CLICK on theQuestion mark (?) icon when online.

An online Eureka Search Guide that covers both the telnet and web versions of Eureka is available at the URL:http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/eureka.html