How To Start
Click on MagillOnLiterature from KPL's Online Homework
Centre page. You may choose the Basic Search or Advanced
Search. The default page is the Basic or keyword search
page.
Basic(keyword)Search
After
Find: type your search term. You may type a single term or
use Boolean operators (and,or,not) to refine a search. In
addition you may fill in the Search Option screen to assist
in narrowing your search.
Advanced Search
Here you can use limiters such as full text, author's
gender, author's cultural identity, author's national
identity, genre, series type etc. and field codes can be
used to limit your search to Author, Title and other fields.
Displaying Records
Your results will be displayed 10 records at a time. Click
on the title of the novel or work to view the citation of
the article followed by the full text of the article. Or
click on the HTML Full Text to only view the article
attached to that novel.
You
may print, e-mail or save an article or citation to a
folder. Saving your choices to a folder allows the user to
keep track of their most valuable information. It is in fact
marking the article for later use or work.
To print or e-mail your saved article(s) click the print or
e-mail button. Follow the instructions provided.
Other Options
Subject Search- Type the
first few letters of a subject and press Browse. Check any
subject heading you wish and click on Search. The numbers
after the subject heading indicate how many books are
classified in that category.
Author Search- Type the
first few letters of an author’s last name and press Browse.
Check any authors you wish and click on Search.
Principal Characters-Type
the first letters of character’s first name or last name and
press Browse. Check any characters you wish and click on
Search.
Genres-Type
the first few letters of a genre and press Browse. Check any
genre heading you wish and click on Search. The numbers
after the genre type indicate how many titles are classified
in that genre.
Title Search-Type the
first few letters of a title and press Browse. Check any
title listed and click on Search.
Getting Help
MagillOnLiterature provides useful help screens. Click help
to access.
Click
on Exit to leave the program.
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