Using Filters in SCOUT

Learning Outcomes

• Locate the area on the USMA Library website where you can find various SCOUT filters
• Use filters to narrow your search results.
• Determine which filter to use to best narrow your results

Using Filters in SCOUT

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This is an interactive tutorial. Click the button on the top right to find interactive elements. If the tutorial instructs you to click an element, please do!

This is the landing page for USMA Library. From the top search bar, you can type keywords directly into the Search SCOUT bar to search for resources.

Press enter on your keyboard to begin a search

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Click on the hotspots to learn about the results page

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What do filters do?

SCOUT SEARCH - small unit tactics

Total library resources - 1,143

Held by Library- 28 results

Filters narrow your results

Resource Type (Books) - 25 results

Location (Circulating Books]- 21 results

Final results-21 results

Filtered from 1,143 to 21

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Additional helpful filters

Searching by language can be especially useful when doing Foreign Area studies or World Language classes

While helpful to filter for current scholarship, remember this is not the year of an event, it is the year of publication.

The highlighted locations are some of the most commonly used

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Now there are three active filters.

These three active filters reduced the results to 21 items.

Click Location to get the drop-down menu for Circulating Books

View your active filters here, click the x to rmove the filter.

Now there are two active filters.

The Books filter brought the results number to 25

Click on Location to find the filter, Circulating Books

Click Location to get the drop-down menu for Circulating Books

You can now use these results to look for books on the shelf using the call number

This is the initial results page. A search on small unit tactics returned 1,143 results.

Click on the filter Held by Library to see which books are owned by the USMA Library

Availability Filters

Hover over each filter to learn how these filters narrow your results

From the main library page, search small unit tactics.

The Held by library filter reduced the results to 28

Click on Resource type to filter for books

SCOUT Filters

In addition to the Availability filters, there are 10 other filters in SCOUT to narrow your results. For example, click the down arrow for Resource Type

Each filter has multiple options for further refining your search.