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Land Life Leisure is a bibliographic database of land-based literature. It covers current practice and developments in:
Go to Land Life Leisure and click on login. Depending on your local setup, you may be asked for a username and password. If your username or password are not recognised, follow the login details on the service homepage or from your institutional login link.
The service is normally available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Any planned service breaks will be announced via the EDINA web site.
For more information, contact your local library, or:
Email: edina@ed.ac.uk or WWW: http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/
Land Life Leisure has five navigational areas:
screen image of Standard Search screen:
When you login, the Standard Search page is default. Use the drop-down menu to choose between keywords, title, author, source and subject headings. You may limit your search by the year of the date of publication, beginning from 1990 to date. You also have the option of viewing records added during the current week. From that page you can also view the previous four weeks weekly listings.
screen image of Advanced Search screen:
This page offers a full range of search and display options.
screen image of Subject Headings screen:
This option allows you to look at information indexed under a set of subject headings (called Wordlist). From here you can move through subject headings in each letter until you find the word required.
screen image of Browse screen:
This page allows you to browse alphabetical indexes of keywords by exact title or exact source. Your specified term will be at the bottom of the first column of terms returned. Each term in the list has a number beside it denoting the number of records in the whole database that contain the index term in the chosen field. Clicking on the number will perform a search using the index term as a search term, and searching in the chosen field.
screen image of Marked Records screen:
This page lists all the records you have marked during your searching this session. This can include records from more than one search. Once records have been unmarked, they will no longer be displayed here. From here you can email the list, unmark all the list, or return to where you were before you asked to view the marked records. You can also print this page of marked records using your web browser, or save it to your computer desktop as a text file.
screen image of Mark Records buttons:
Each record returned has a checkbox to allow marking and unmarking. Marking a record lets you choose individual records to manipulate further. (See Marked Records.) Mark All will mark all the records returned. Unmark All will unmark all marked records.
screen image of Search History:
This page lists the searches you have conducted during the current session. Clicking on the search query will repeat that search. You may combine more of these searches using the check boxes and the drop-down menu of Boolean operators.
To save a search query for use in subsequent sessions, click the save search button in the Store Search column that corresponds to the query. You will get a message: Your search has been saved to file.
If you look at the Previous Sessions page, you will see that the search query has been added to the list of saved searches. To re-execute a search, click the link in the Search Query column that corresponds to the search.
To specify that a search should be run automatically each time the database is updated, click the Auto Alert checkbox next to the search query. You should also fill in the email address you want the records to be sent to, the format of the records, and the maximum number of records to be emailed. To save these details, click the save details button at the bottom of the page.
screen image of Search Results:
This shows each record found during the most recent search, ten per page, giving the Title, Source and Subjects. There is a checkbox for marking each record.
screen image of Refine Search screen:
Your search term will appear in the text box at the top, which you can amend directly. There is also another text box for combining further search terms. If you wish to place limits on the search, the full range of limiting fields are available to use.
screen image of Sorting Searches:
You may sort your searches from the Advanced Search page and the Search Results page. You may sort your records using drop-down menus by up to three preset fields: Source, Year and Subject Heading. The first field chosen will be the main sorting field, then the second, then the third. You may indicate here whether your search is ascending (smallest value to largest value, or earliest date to latest date), or descending (largest value to smallest value, or latest date to earliest date).
| Use | To |
|---|---|
| * | Truncate. This matches any number of characters in the middle of or at the end of a search item. Use this to find forms of a root word, e.g. danc* retrieves dance, dancer, danced, etc. |
| ? | Matches 0 or 1 character within or at end of a word. For example: col?r retrieves color and colour. |
Boolean operators help define the relationships between words or groups of words.
| Use | To |
|---|---|
| AND | Narrow search, and retrieve records containing all of the words it separates. |
| OR | Broaden search, and retrieve records containing any of the words it separates. |
| NOT | Narrow search, and retrieve records that do not contain the term following it. |
No operator: If no operator is used with more than one word in a search term, AND becomes the default operator between the words.
Online help is available at all times. To return from Help to the previous area, follow the relevant link in the navigation bar at the top.
It is good practice to use the Exit link when you have finished the session. This will take you to a logoff page where you click the Logoff link. You will exit from your Education Image Gallery session. From here you may either continue to use other Athens authenticated services or logout of Athens altogether. You will be automatically logged out after a period of non-use of the interface.
Last updated May 2009