Help for searching in RiO and for the library account

• You can find information about your login details on our Library card & login details(Opens in a new tab)  website.
  After logging in, you will be taken to an account overview which shows all the following categories in brief.
• Loans: in your account you will find an overview of all current loans including the maximum date until which the respective media can be renewed if they are not reserved. You can also view all returned loans from the last 6 months.
  The following data is displayed for each loan: title, author, year of publication, due date, signature of the medium, library branch of the medium, loan date, loan status (renewed or not), barcode of the medium, maximum renewal date (subject to reservation in the case of 0 reservations).
• Orders: You can view all outstanding reservations and branch orders and cancel them if necessary.
• Fees: You can view your fee status.
• Blocks & notifications: if a notification has been entered for you or your account has been blocked, you can view the status here.
• Personal details: here you can check your personal details that are stored in our system. The PIN for using the self-booking devices can be changed here.
  If you are a member of Fachhochschule Dortmund, you can add another email address, but you cannot change your password (only possible via the administration of the FH ID in ODS(Opens in a new tab)  ). If you use the library as an external user, you can also change your access password.

• My favorites: You can add hits found to this list and save them permanently.
  Entire search queries can also be saved and reused.
• Search history/search history: Searches made in the past are saved and can be retrieved. You can decide whether you want to keep them and save them as a query or delete them.

This website(Opens in a new tab)  explains what reservations and orders are and how they can be made.

• The simple search can be used as follows: enter one or more search terms in the input field and select your search area either before submitting the search or afterwards (please press the search button again).
  Everything searches all references contained in the search engine.
  Library catalog searches only the holdings of the Fachhochschule Dortmund library: printed media, DVDs, licensed e-books.
  Article searches databases and other online sources for articles, contributions, e-media and other content.
• If you enter several terms one after the other in the input field, they are linked by AND .
• No distinction is made between upper and lower case.
• You can abbreviate the search terms with an asterisk (*) by any number of characters or replace individual characters of the terms with a question mark (?) (so-called truncation).
  Examples: Search term* / Tele?on
• You can limit your search results using various filters (on the left-hand side). These filters are linked with AND .
  Filter options: Branch, location within the branch, literature type, author, year of publication, keyword, language, availability, new acquisitions, possibly title of the journal.

• You put together your search query for an advanced search using elements that can be linked together to form the final search term.
  Possible elements for the search fields are Title, author, keyword, shelfmark, ISBN, ISSN, series, abstract, table of contents. Any field searches all available fields for a specific term.
  All search fields contain the same selection of so-called search attributes.
• You can specify how the search word should appear in the corresponding search field: contains means that the search word does not have to appear alone in the field; is (exact) means that exactly the search word and nothing else must appear in the field; starts with means that the search word must appear in the field at the beginning.
• The individual blocks are linked to each other via link fields . There are AND, OR and NOT. These operators can be linked together as required.
  You can find examples of various search queries in the Search syntax section.
• No distinction is made between upper and lower case.
• You can abbreviate the search terms with an asterisk (*) by any number of characters or replace individual characters of the terms with a question mark (?) (so-called truncation).
  Examples: Search term* / Tele?on

You can use the index search, for example, if

• the exact spelling of the term is not known
• the context of the search term is to be displayed
• index entries are to be displayed from the entered start term

Select a search area in which the index search is to be carried out, e.g. author. Enter a surname: all entries for persons with this or a similar surname will be displayed. You can select these entries and display the media linked to this name.