Biblioteca: Impara

The quick and easy search in the online catalogue of the Istat Library involves a few steps:

• Type in the search bar (located at the top of the homepage) a part of the document title, the keywords or the author’s name.



• Once the search has started, the list with the corresponding results appears. You can share the list on your social profiles by selecting the specific icons.
  The search can be refined, via the side facets, according to document type (printed text, analytical title, periodical, series), library, main author, year of publication or language, or by using the suggested TAGs.



• Once the result is selected, the tab with the main information appears. As with the search list, the desired document can also be shared on social profiles by clicking on the appropriate icons.



• Under ‘Where can I find it‘, the libraries that hold the selected resource are indicated, with their location. It is possible to check whether the document is available for loan or for internal consultation. By clicking on ‘Loan request‘, the registered user can directly request the resource or reserve it if it is temporarily unavailable.



Clicking on “Shelf” the library shelf on which the searched document is located is virtually explored.



• – A further possibility for further exploration is offered by “Related searches“, at the side of the resource card, with the list of documents associated with the search performed.

The Advanced Search is a precise search carried out in Istat Library Catalogue through the values contained in a selection of fields..
The search requires the following steps:

• Activate the function by clicking the button at the top right of the home page (icon highlighted in the following image).

  

  By selecting the icon the filters for “Advanced search” in Istat Library Catalogue will automatically open.

  

• Using the drop-down menu in the first “Search Context” field, choose the “Catalogue” item to search among all the available documents, or choose the “Digital Library” item to search among digital documents only.

• Using the drop-down menu in the “Library/System” field, choose whether to search for publications available in all Istat libraries, or narrow down the search to one or more selected libraries.

• Below is a selection of possible filters to be activated in the search, using the appropriate fields:
  Table of contents and summary
  Author
  Title
  Subject
  Publisher
  Year of publication
  Language

  t these fields enter the values that will form the search criteria.
  The values to be searched can be typed in or taken from the list of terms activated by clicking the arrow on the right.
  
  
  For example, we search the entire catalogue, in all libraries, for publications of the author Giovannini Enrico (with term extracted from the list), years 2018 and 2019.

  

  Click the “Search” button and get the list of results.

  

• In addition, for each field, search options are available:

• Exact: if the term is drawn from the list, the “Exact” option is automatically activated.
• Contains: for example, by typing the term “abbigliamento) with the option “Contains” in the “Title” field, we obtain the list of publications whose titles contain the term “abbligliamento”.
• Starts with: for example by typing the term “annali” (“annals”, in Italian) with the option “Starts with” in the “Title” field, we obtain the list of publications whose titles begin with “annali”: Annali dell’istruzione (Education Annals), Annali del Dipartimento di scienze statistiche (Department of statistics Sciences Annals), Annali di etica pubblica (Annals of public ethics), Annali di statistica (Annals of statistics), etc …
• Does not contain: for example, by adding to the previous search of publications whose title begins with “annali”(“annals”) the search for the title that does not contain the term “statistica” (“statistics”), we exclude from the result the publications whose title begins with “annali” and contains the term “statistica”.

• When searching for values in multiple fields, the options AND, OR, NOT can be activated. By operating in AND, each bibliographic record found contains all the values set in the search. By operating in OR, each record found contains even only one of the values searched in one of the fields. To activate the option, click the icon on the right of the “Turn into a group” field.

  

For example, search for publications of authors Rey Guido Maria and Becchi Ada, setting the AND option.


The publication in which Becchi and Rey are both authors (Becchi Ada first author and Rey Guido Maria co-author) is thus found.



Now search for the publications of authors Rey Guido Maria and Becchi Ada, setting the OR option.



All the publications by Rey or Becchi, not necessarily co-authors, are thus found. A greater number of results are therefore present in the Results list.



Returning to the Results list, the filters used in the last search are always displayed, to allow the user to add any filters or change conditions to the search just carried out. The “Clean” button located after the search fields allows to reset all previous search conditions.

Istat Library has an extraordinary wealth of digitized documents.
The digitization in PDF / A format allows direct full text search in documents.

• Activate the Digital Library function to search for these documents.
  In addition to the free search based on metadata, which operates on the contents of the descriptive fields such as title, author, year of publication, publisher, SBN code, by checking the Full text search option in digital objects, the search works on all the terms contained in the PDF/A documents.
• The search can be carried out on an exact phrase, by inserting double commas at the beginning and at the end of the text searched.
  As a way of example, if we are looking for a document that contains the following sentence in the text: “salute della popolazione nelle regioni italiane”We get a monograph in return. To open the document, click on the item Digital object, then on the URL

  

  Further, if we search in the text the sentence: “salute della popolazione nelle regioni italiane” using the browser’s “find” function we will find it on page 5 (the document totals 84 pages).

  

• The search can be carried out on single words in the text, not necessarily adjacent, omitting to insert double quotes in the search string. For example, suppose we are looking for documents containing the following four words in the text: foreigners resident in Emilia Romagna. We obtain as a result 181 documents, each of which contains in the text all the words we have searched for, not necessarily written in the same sequence.

  We can scroll through the list, select the documents we are interested in and reach the digital object in PDF format.

• The search can be performed both on exact sentences and on single words contained in the text.For example, if we are looking for documents that contain in the text the exact phrases “foreign families” and “Italian citizenship” and the words Emilia Romagna and work

  

  We obtain 8 documents as a result, each of them contains in the text the phrases and words we have searched for.