The Luiss Library Discovery is the main tool you need to locate or access directly documents in the library. If you do not have a citations list where to start, the search engine can be very useful to enrich your research also by starting from a simple search. Identify your major keywords, in English and/or other languages, and that will allow you to narrow down the topic you are interested in.
What type of material are you looking for? Books, manuals, or articles from periodicals? Financial data or statistics? Having a clear idea what documents you need is essential in order to decide which database to search.
Open the discovery remembering the use of Boolean operators, filters, and other categories suggested by the search engine.
Once you display the list of results look at the information suggested by the system.
Results are displayed by relevance, but the order can be customized.
Each result can be:
- saved into a personal folder;
- shared through its permalink;
- exported as a bibliographic citation in a specific format;
- send via e-mail.
The discovery also indicates whether the publication is peer reviewed and the number of times it has been cited.
Cited in:
- Web Of Science which provides top journals for high quality literature retrieval
- Scopus which offers authoritative research and provides access to reliable metrics and analytical tools
- Altmetrics which shows how much online attention has been shown for this research.
The saved results are ready for citation export in the top right folder.
You can choose the citation style and then export it or proceed with a simple copy/paste.
