National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 68 | April 2004


Kinetica: New Interface Offers Easier Access

A new interface to Kinetica was launched in early March. Searchers can now choose to search specific sub-sets of the National Bibliographic Database, for example:

The new screens implement a number of recommendations from Australian libraries and create a much easier pathway to important resources, such as Australian theses. The ongoing development of the Kinetica service is designed to enhance access to the collections of Australian libraries to assist resource discovery and sharing.

For a user to locate Australian theses they will need to simply tick the ‘Australian publication’ and ‘theses’ boxes to search for the roughly 150 000 items held by Australian libraries. Locating special types of material has long been a challenge in such a large database as the National Bibliographic Database with over 37 million holdings and 14 billion bibliographic records. Discovering relevant resources is significantly enhanced by the new interface, which was piloted on researchers at the National Library of Australia.

The Advanced search screen now appears as:

Advanced search in National Bibliographic Database Web page

For all searchers for material in Australian library collections the Kinetica service now offers easy effective searching for special materials previously difficult to find.

More information on the search screens can be found at <www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/newsearch.html>, comments and feedback are welcome – see <www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/kineticaweb/feedback.html> or contact the Kinetica Help desk on 1800 026 155 (kinetica@nla.gov.au) to pass on suggestions.

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