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Anglia Ruskin Research Online >
About
Using search |
There are two principal ways of finding content within this repository searching and browsing.
The simple search box appears in the top left hand corner of each page of the site with the exception of the submission form. Enter your search term and you're away.
You will find that there is an additional search box on each community, sub-community and collection home page. This search box will allow you to carry out a simple search at that level of hierarchy or any level below it using a drop down menu.
Here are a few tips on searching:
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The site search box |
Search terms entered in the site search box will be searched against all indexed metadata fields, as well as the full text for PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and RTF files.
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What is not searched - stop words |
The search engine ignores certain words that occur frequently in English, but do not add value to the search. These are:
"a", "and" , "are" , "as" , "at" , "be" , "but" , "by" , "for" , "if" , "in" , "into",
"is" ,"it" ,"no" , "not" , "of" , "on" , "or" , "such", "the" , "to" , "was"
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Truncation |
Use an asterisk (*) after a word stem to get all hits having words starting with that root, for example:
select*
will retrieve selects, selector, selectman, selecting etc
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Stemming |
The search engine automatically expands words with common endings to include plurals, past tenses ...etc.
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Phrase searching |
To search using multiple words as a phrase, put quotation marks (") around the phrase, for example:
"organisational change".
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Exact word match |
Put a minus (-) sign before a word if it should not appear in the search results. Alternatively, you can use NOT. This can limit your search to eliminate unwanted hits. For instance, in the search:
training-cat or training NOT cat
you will get items containing the word "training", except those that also contain the word "cat".
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Eliminate items with unwanted words |
Put a plus (+) sign before a word if it MUST appear in the search result. For instance, if the word "training" is optional, but the word "dog" must be in the result you would use:
+dog training
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Boolean searching |
The following Boolean operators can be used to combine terms. Note that they must be CAPITALIZED.
AND - to limit searches to find items containing all words or phrases combined with this operator, e.g.
cats AND dogs
will retrieve all items that contain BOTH the words "cats" and "dogs";
OR - to enlarge searches to find items containing any of the words or phrases surrounding this operator
cats OR dogs
will retrieve all items that contain EITHER of the words "cats" or "dogs";
NOT - to exclude items containing the word following this operator, e.g.
training NOT cat
will retrieve all items that contain the word "training" EXCEPT those also containing the word "cat".
Parentheses can be used in the search query to group search terms into sets, and operators can then be applied to the whole set, e.g.
(cats OR dogs) AND (training OR discipline)
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Advanced search |
Underneath the simple search box is a link to the advanced search page. The advanced search allows you to specify the metadata fields you wish to search, and to combine these searches with the Boolean "and", "or" or "not". You can search across all of ARRO, or restrict your search to a community or collection using the top drop-down menu. Select the field to search in the left hand column and enter the word or phrase you are searching for in the right hand column. You can select the Boolean operator to combine searches by clicking on the arrow to the right of the "AND" box.
Note: You must use the input boxes in order. If you leave the first one blank your search will not work.
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Submitting content |
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What type of content should we be submitting? |
ARRO is an open access collection of research outputs and scholarly publications from the Anglia Ruskin Research Community. You can contribute by submitting outputs such as research papers, images, audio and video research outputs, book chapters, reports and associated data.
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Why should we submit our work to ARRO? |
Research has shown that work published in Open Access institutional repositories can gain up to 300% more citations than research published in journals that limit access through paid for subscriptions. That means increased exposure to your work and all the benefits that come with it. Increasingly, more research funding bodies are insisting that work carried out under their grants must also be deposited within an institutional or subject specific repository.
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How do we submit? |
All members of the Anglia Ruskin research community may submit their research to ARRO. Using the submit links from the navigation bar or from the collection homepage follow the steps: add descriptive metadata, upload the file, check the submission and agree to the distribution licence.
There is an additional option to automatically populate some of the metadata using a PubMed ID or a DOI.
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How much metadata should we add? |
As much as possible; the more metadata you add, the greater the chances of someone finding your work. However, the only compulsory fields are Title, Authors, Affiliation, Type, Subject Keywords and Date of Issue.
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How do we know if we are allowed to submit an article that has been previously published? |
Publisher policies for self-archiving are listed on the RoMEO database, which is also linked to from the first page of the submission form. Please ask your Faculty Administrator to advise which version may be submitted.
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Is there any restriction on what files can be uploaded? |
ARRO can accept any type of file but content files should be in open formats, such as PDF for text, in order to facilitate long-term preservation of the content.
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Will my submission appear immediately? |
After you have agreed to the distribution licence, your submission will go through the ARRO workflow process, which comprises a Faculty review followed by a review by the University Library, before being accepted into ARRO. You will receive email notification when the process is complete.
An item's metadata is available for searching immediately; the full text will be indexed over-night and will be available to be searched the following morning.
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