How to find a book in the library catalogue

Welcome to the BSMU library catalogue that contains publications and materials from the library fund.

In order to find the right resources, it is best to know what information each database contains.  

The library catalogue consists of several databases:

• Books of the BSMU fund – contains bibliographic description of all types of literature including scientific books, textbooks, supplementary literature and reference books.
• Journals; journal and collection articles – contains abstracts of medical journal articles that are included in the library fund as well as abstracts of articles from conference proceedings held in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
• Full text materials on Medicine in the RB – this database is devoted to the development of medicine in the Republic of Bashkortostan (RB). It contains abstracts and full-text articles from collections of scientific papers, conference proceedings, seminars, congresses held in the Republic of Bashkortostan; as well as abstracts and full-text dissertation abstracts defended in the BSMU since 2006.
• History of Medicine – contains abstracts of books and articles as well as their full texts on History of Medicine.
• Mass Media about Medicine in the RB – includes article abstracts and full-text articles from all-Russian and regional newspapers, regional popular science journals. Articles are devoted to the development of Medicine in the Republic of Bashkortostan, and to the history and the development of the Bashkir State Medical University. 
• E-library – contains abstracts and full texts of textbooks and study guides published by the Bashkir State Medical University.
• Video files – contains descriptions of professional videofilms on Biomedicine.

– Advanced Search

Define the purpose of search and formulate the query. Pay attention to the fact that while formulating queries there are the following rules in all the types of search: 

• You can simultaneously fill several search fields. As a result of the search, you get descriptions that meet all the criteria.

• Search fields are possible to fill in any letter case but it is more practical to use only lowercase.

• The majority of search fields can be filled partially, and there is no need to type more than 27 letters. The part of the line that exceeds the 27-letter limit will be ignored by the system.

If you want to get the list of the literature recommended by professors and available in the Library, you should fill the search fields Специальность (Specialty) or Дисциплина (Discipline). This type of search uses data from textbooks and study guides:

If you need to find the exact book, you should fill in the fields Автор (Author) и Заглавие (Title). It is preferable to indicate surname together with the author's initials:

If you want to find all available books on the same topic, use the Keywords search field. Besides non-standardized phrases reflecting the topic of publications, keywords also include separate words from titles, abstracts, and subject angles. This provides more extensive search, however, less accurate one. 

To increase accuracy of the search when using the Keywords field, you can limit the search area to a certain field. To choose the necessary field, click the pointer below the Keywords field in the line "в любом поле" ("in any field") to get access to the drop-down menu. Sometimes it is quite effective to set limits to the search, for example, if you want to find a book but do not know the first word of its title. In this case you may type the known words of the title and choose the field "в заглавии" ("in the title") in the drop-down menu. As the result, you get books titles of which contain the indicated words, and the word order does not affect the search results. 

Pay attention to the operator you use while searching: И (AND), ИЛИ (OR). И (AND) operator unites information from all the filled-in fields and searches for resources that exactly match the indicated parameters. ИЛИ (OR) operator considerably expands the search as it searches for resources that match at least one of the indicated parameters. 

To ensure that the search results match the keywords exactly, set the "Окончания слов" ("Word endings") option to "Учитывать" ("Take into account"). This option is important in some cases where the prevalence of certain word roots leads to irrelevant search results. For example, you need books on the topic "contemporary history", but not interested in "contemporary historians" or "contemporary historiography".