How to use Oria

Once you've signed in to Oria, you can:

• request materials and make reservations
• save your searches and set up notifications
• get an overview of your loans and your requests
• renew your loans

The sign-in link is located in the right corner of the top menu in Oria.

On your mobile device, you'll find the same link in the menu indicated by three dots.

If you're not already signed-in, a sign-in link will be shown when you've accessed a book- or article page in Oria.

You use your Feide user credentials to sign in if you're a student or staff member at VID.

In [My Account] in Oria, you'll find an overview of your loans and requests. This is where you can renew your loans.

You can see your personal details (phone number, e-mail address and so forth) registered for your user as well. If you're a student and wish to edit your personal details, you can make the changes in Studentweb. This applies to (for example) preferred campus/pick-up library, address and e-mail address. Any changes you make in Studentweb will have effect the following day.

[My Account] is located under [Menu] in Oria.

You use your Feide credentials to sign in, if you're a student or staff member at VID.

Signing in to Oria won't give you read access to e-resources (articles, e-books, databases etc.). When you follow a link from Oria to an e-resource that requires authentication, you'll automatically be routed to a designated sign-in service for this purpose. If you're a student or staff member at VID, you must sign in with the username and password for your VID user. External users do not have access to VID's e-resources.

For more information, please refer to the page Access to e-resources.

If you're looking for a specific book, you need to know either:

• the title, as precise as possible (if you search for "nursing" you'll get a great many hits)
• the author, both first and last name if possible (if you simply search for "Hanson" you'll get too many hits)

If you search according to the instructions above, you have a good chance of finding the book you're looking for.

Under [Get It] on the page of the book in Oria, there's information that will guide you to the right shelf in the library. It also gives you information about whether the book is available for borrowing:

It shows which VID library(s) has the book:

You can also see how long you can borrow the book for:

Finally, there is the call number - where the book is located in the library. You need the full number to find the book on the shelf, for example 808.066 Dal (numbers and letters):

This is the number you look for when you go to the library to find the book. Each book shelf in the library is marked with call numbers.

NB: The call number for a book may vary from library to library:

This library has 13 copies of this book for 2-week loans, but only 2 are currently available:

You can click on the different locations for more information about the specific copies:

You can renew your loans in [My Account]. Once you've tried to renew, you can see if the renewal was successful. If it wasn't, you need to return the book to the library. Not all loans can be renewed, for example 1 day loans and loans that are requested by other patrons.

Open the menu in the top-right corner in Oria and click on [My Account].

You can renew all your loans at the same time on the overview page - click on [Renew All]. All loans that are eligible for renewal will be renewed.

If you wish to renew individual loans, go to the [Loans] tab. Check the boxes for the relevant loans and click [Renew selected].

If you wish to renew one loan at a time, click [Renew] next to the loan you want to renew.

Is the book you want to borrow on loan? Then you can place a hold on it in Oria.

Not all books can be placed on hold. This applies to, for example, 1-day loans and books that have the status [Item in place] at your own campus/pickup library. In case the book is in place (available on the shelf), you need to go to the library and locate and borrow it yourself.

How to place a hold

Find the book you wish to place a hold on. Click [Sign in] if you aren't already signed-in.

When you've signed in, the page will be refreshed automatically. Click [Request].

Choose pickup library (=one of the libraries where all copies are currently on loan) in the request form and click [Request].

Your hold is now received and will be handled by the library. You'll get an e-mail/sms when the book is ready for pickup at the library you chose in the request form.

Doesn't VID have the book you wish to borrow? If you're a student (requesting is available when the book is to be used for larger projects) or staff member, you can request the book from another library in Oria.

If you can't find the book you are searching for in Oria, you can expand your search by choosing [Norwegian Academic Libraries].

If you find the book after doing this, you can request it.

Click [Sign in] if you aren't already signed-in.

When you've signed in, the page will be refreshed automatically. Click [Request It From Other Libraries].

Click [Request] in the request form.

Your reservation is received and handled by the library. You'll get an e-mail/sms when the book is ready for pickup at the library you chose in the request form.

Do you wish to request an article VID doesn't have access to? If you're a student (requesting is available when the article is to be used for larger projects) or staff member, you can request the article from another library in Oria.

You'll get an e-mail/sms when the book is ready for pickup at the library you chose in the request form. In cases where the license terms permit it, the library will deliver a digital copy (pdf) of the article to you via e-mail.

Scenario 1: when you find the article in Oria

Search in Oria to see if VID has access to the journal article (use words from the citation). If you don't find the article, click on [Include material your institution doesn't have access to]. If you get zero results in Oria, this inclusion will happen automatically.

You will then get more hits. If you find the right article, click on it. (If you cannot find the right article, see Scenario 2 below.) Then click on [Sign in] if you are not already signed in.

Once you have logged in, the page will refresh automatically. Click on [Request It From Other Libraries].

Check that the information about the article in the order form is correct, and click [Request].

Scenario 2: when you don't find the article in Oria

If you can't find the article when you search in Oria, click [Can't find?] in the top menu.

Fill out the request form. For journal articles, select [Article]. Fill in at least the article title and journal title, but preferably also the author, year, volume, issue number and page number, in cases where you have access to this information.

Click [Request] below the form.

You can perform a phrase search by enclosing multiple words in quotation marks ("). This way, you limit your search to documents where these words appear together. For example, "sustainable globalization" will yield fewer results than sustainable globalization.

You can refine your search by using the filters available from the results list. You can, for example, refine by material type (article, book, etc.), publication year, language, department (= campus library), author, and subject.

You can also pre-limit to a specific material type by clicking on one of these options under the search field in Oria before you search.

If you want to search for resources only within a specific subject, you can do this by first selecting [Advanced Search] and then [Subject] in the dropdown menu under [Search Filters].

If you are not entirely sure about, for example, the title or author's name, you can try truncating the uncertain part of the word and replacing it with an asterisk (*). This will search for all possible endings of the word. For example, lars will yield results for larsen, larsson, and larson.

Similarly, you can replace a letter within or at the end of a word with a question mark (?). This will search for variants of that word. For example, analy?e will yield results for both analyse and analyze.

You can enable the function [Search in Full Text]. This allows you to search the full text of many materials available in Oria. By default, the search does not explore the full text of a material, but rather fields like title, author, abstract, and subject terms.

If you don't get any hits when you search, the search will automatically be expanded to include materials that VID does not have access to (but can potentially request). You can also choose in advance to search this material by enabling the function [Include material your institution doesn't have access to] from the results list.

• Check for spelling errors
• Try searching with different terms
• Try searching with fewer terms
• If you still can't find what you're looking for, you can try requesting the material.