DiscoverE embedded search
DiscoverE Deep Links
Thanks to Kim Durante, Mike Mitchell, and Peter Hornsby. October 24, 2011. Rev. August 24, 2012.
Catalog Tab
Persistent Links to Searches by Title, Author, or Subject
These links are queries sent to DiscoverE using the browsers' common URL format. They can be constructed from a basic URL string to which one can add url parameters for field or resource type and then search terms.
Example: Here is a persistent link to a search for books with exact title = L.A. Confidential
When you click that short URL, see how the url resolves (converts) to the following long url with all the required query parameters automatically added:
This full form is also a persistent url. Notice the “dlSearch.do” element after the third forward slash. That’s the marker of a PURL (persistent url); a regular search in the DiscoverE interface will generate a “search.do” element. But it will not work to simply perform a search in discovere and replace "search.do" in the url with "dlSearch.do".
To create your own, start with this base url :
http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/
Then add search qualifiers:
You can add one of the following parameters to search only specific fields in the bibliographic records:
- title
- author
- subject
or, leave blank for searching anywhere in the record.
You can then optionally add one of these Resource Types:
- books
- audio
- video
- journals
- images
- maps
- scores
- archives
or leave blank to search all resource types.
Separate these additional parameters using a dash after the main parameter, for example:
- /title-books
- /subject-video
- /author-audio
Finally, add your search terms after a placing another slash /:
Examples of search terms:
- Of mice and men (for a book title search)
- Stanley Kubrick (for a video search by author = director)
- Smithsonian Folkways (for an audio recording search by title)
Your final result will look something like this:
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/title-books/of mice and men
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/author-video/Stanley Kubrick
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/title-audio/Smithsonian Folkways
Option: use the added value exact after the field parameter to match the keywords as a phrase:
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/title-exact/what the dog saw
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/title-exact-scores/Serenade für Violine solo
Replace punctuation with spaces, for example:
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/author-exact-video/Alfred Hitchcock 1899 1980 (replacing the hyphen between the dates)
- http://discovere.emory.edu:8991/subject-exact-books/Louisiana History Civil War 1861 1865 (replacing the dashes in the subject heading)
If you are using deep links in a library Drupal web page, replace the spaces with the more browser-friendly %20 code, thus...
Keyword Searches
To search for keywords in all fields of a bibliographic record, e.g., to search for a standard number like WorldCat number = "ocm77574641", use the fuller form of the search query url and add the keyword(s) at the end. Note the use of the url-friendly code %2C in place of the commas. Also note the default setting of the resource type to "books."
Another example with keywords "healing services". Note the use of the html code %20 for the space. Substitute "exact" for "contains" to search for the phrase "healing services"; "contains" searches for records that contain both words whether adjacent or not.
An example of a search for items of any resource type (facet parameters removed) that might be in the format of a map or include maps or reference maps of Tibet:
An example of a search for items whose title includes "women" AND whose record also satisfies the following keyword boolean phrase: "religio* and (dictionar* OR encyclop* OR gazetteer*) NOT biograph*" :
Call Number search and browse
There are two ways to search by call number. The first searches DiscoverE for items with the given call number but does not sort by call number order. The second browses the shelves by call number order in the OPAC interface.
Here is an example of a url query to DiscoverE that displays items in the call number range for Tibetan Literature PLxx. Note the use of the wildcard placeholder ?
Here is an example of a url query to the OPAC (catalog) that displays a list of items in call number order with the option to continue browsing forward or backward:
Persistent link to the Advanced Search page
Persistent link to a specific record using Aleph system numbers.
- Use the Keyword search format and add the system number at the end in the format emory_aleph#########, e.g., number 000241333 for the book entitled Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.
- For records that use an SFX number, substitute emory_sfx for emory_aleph in the formula, e.g., for the journal Asian Philosophy...
- http://primo02v1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?vid=discovere&institution=EMORY&dym=true&onCampus=false&group=GUEST&indx=1&bulkSize=30&fn=search&query=any%2Ccontains%2Cemory_sfx954925272411
Articles Tab
- Add &tab=tab2
- Example (searching christian* AND "The Simpsons"): http://primo02v1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?vid=discovere&institution=EMORY&dym=true&onCampus=false&group=GUEST&indx=1&bulkSize=30&fn=search&tab=tab2&query=any%2Ccontains%2Cchristian*+AND+"The%20simpsons"
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