Help - Check Box Filters
Help - Index
Both the simple and advanced search screens on Libraries Australia enable you to limit your searches to particular material types and/or categories or materials, by clicking on the box next to a particular category. You will be able to limit your searches to the following groups of records on the Australian National Bibliographic Database:
- Australian* - limits your searches to material with Australian content
- Online - includes the searching of both online full text and table of contents
- Government - allows you to search for government publications only
- In Library - allows you to search only for those items held by Australian libraries
- Conference - allows you to search for conference publications only
- Books - allows you to search for books only
- Journals - enables you to search for journals, such as magazines
- Newspapers - this category allows you to search for newspapers only
- Manuscripts - allows you to limit your search to Manuscript collections
- Theses - limits your searching to Theses
- Maps - allows you to search a number of map collections
- Pictures - limits your search to pictorial collections
- Oral Histories - limits your searching to oral history collections
- Printed Music - limits your search to printed music
- Musical Sound - limits your search to musical sound recordings
- Film/Video - allows you to search for film and video materials
- Braille - limits your searching to braille materials
- Large Print Books - limits your search to large print books only
- Talking Books - searches for talking books only
Specifications for the Material Group Limit Options are:
Description |
MARC mapping |
Index mapping |
Books | Leader 06=a and Leader 07= a, c, d, m or Leader 06=t | MAT=t OR (MAT = a AND (BIB = a OR BIB = c OR BIB = d OR BIB = m)) |
Journals | Leader 06=a and Leader 07= b, s and Control Field 008/21<>n | MAT = a AND (BIB = s OR BIB = b) NOT SEY = n |
Newspapers | Control field 008/21=n | SEY = n |
Pictures | Leader 06=k | MAT = k |
Maps | Leader 06=e or Leader 06=f | MAT = e OR MAT = f |
Film / Video | Leader 06=g and Control field 008/33= m or v | MAT = g AND (VMM = m OR VMM = v ) |
Printed Music | Leader 06=c or d | MAT=c OR MAT=d |
Musical Sound | Leader 06=j | MAT=j |
Australian Content Indicator | ACI = 1 | ACI = 1 |
Government publications | Control field 008/28 =a, c, f, i, l, m, o, s, z | GOV = a OR GOV = c OR GOV = f OR GOV = l OR GOV = m OR GOV = o OR GOV = s OR GOV = z |
Conference publication | *Control field 008/29=1 | CNF = 1 |
Publications for young people | **Control field 008/22 = a, b, c, j | BKA = a OR BKA = b OR BKA = c OR BKA = j |
Theses | Control field 008/24-27=m | NAT = m |
Online | a. 245 $h = [electronic resource] and 856 2nd indicator != 2 OR b. 245 $h has any other value and an 856 is present, as long as one of the 856 links is to an online version of the resource, website or related document. |
URM='online'
where URM is the "UR: Material Type" index |
Large Print Books | 008 cp 23 = d | FRM=d |
In Library | Has holdings |
Please note that the default status for the checkboxes is "unticked".
You do not have to tick a checkbox to submit a query.
You may select on more than one checkbox. In effect, you are searching
for records that are included in all collections associated with the checkboxes
you ticked.
Example 1
Your actions: You tick the checkboxes for Books and
government publication
The results: Your search is limited to books published
by Australian and overseas governments
Note that there may be times when no records meet the criteria of being in all collections you nominated.
Example 2
Your actions: You tick the checkboxes for Books and
Newspapers
The results: Your search returns results which are either books or newspapers.
*Australian limit- This will limit your search to any item that includes the Australian Content Indicator. The ACI is used in catalogue records where the author was born or has lived in Australia for a substantial period of time, the work is considered to have significant Australian content or if the work has been published in Australia.