Brief Guide to Classic PALS

Author: Mark England

File Use: Type:
For NDSU books and magazine titles Online catalog FILE CAT
For articles in magazines (PALS) Periodical indexes  FILE GEN, FILE BUS, FILE HEA, FILE EAI If prompted to logon, type: logon [your barcode number] [your last name]
Searching Command: Example:
Topic TE (any word or term)
ST (subject term)		 TE cattle nutrition
ST beef cattle
Title TT (title key words)
TI (exact title) 		TT cattle feeding
TI Beef cattle feeding and nutrition
Author AU [author's last name first name or initial] AU Perry T
Reserve Collection RES [instructor's last name, or course number] RES Colville
RES vetsci 135
Tri-College Libraries TRI TE TRI beef cattle
Displaying and printing Command Example:
Display of records found DI Displays records 1-20
Display individual records DI [record # or #'s] DI 6 12 14 19
Display availability of a particular volume or year of a magazine DSD [year or volume] DSD 1987
Return to list of records RE Returns to short list of records
Print Screen Click of left printer icon in toolbar Prints the current screen
Print a full-text article from PALS Click on the right printer icon in toolbar Prints the full text of an article (if it is marked with an * in the list of records found) to the printers in the Reference room
Send results of a search to your e-mail address PRINT MAIL [your e-mail address] Print mail Johnson@badlands.nodak.edu
Send a full-text article to your e-mail address PRINT MAIL TXT [your e-mail address] Print mail txt Johnson@badlands.nodak.edu
Helpful Hints
Truncation # (for various word endings) TE pesticid# toxic# (retrieves pesticide, pesticides, pesticidal, toxic, toxicity, etc.)
Recall item checked out HLD [your barcode number][your password] HLD 20109000123456 Doe

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