Electronic Database of the Week (EDotW)

The first database I want to highlight is UTMOST. UTMOST is the University of Toledo’s online library catalog. It contains records of all the materials available in the University of Toledo libraries. With the recent merger with MUO this does now include the medical library's records. You can search by title, subject, author, call number or keyword. For me, unless I know who the author is or the title, I prefer using the keyword. Subject searching can be tricky, for example searching "Tort Law" as a subject won't bring up any results. Using them as keywords will bring up books on tort law. Choose one of the results, and towards the bottom of the record there will be a subject line or lines. You can then click on those subject headings to call up more results on the same subject.

We have upgraded the catalog so that electronic resources we subscribe to are also now available through the catalog. For example, searching for the “ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct” will bring a record for our paper copy, the record for the serial copy that has current reports and a link to the electronic version. Please note that access to the electronic version is limited to the law library.

In the library there are two computers dedicated to UTMOST opposite to the circulation desk. You can also access the catalog from the LaValley Library homepage. It is the top link on the lefthand side “Search our catalog.”