Remember there are two ways to access ISearch and ISearch Mobile. If you begin on the INFOhio homepage, make sure you are logged in to your district's INFOhio username and password, and scroll down to find the ISearch search bar and begin your search. If you access ISearch from the INFOhio homepage, to access the ISearch homepage you will need to click on the hamburger main menu and click Home. You can also access ISearch from your library's homepage, see the Getting to Know ISearch Mobile lesson for more details.
Once you have made it to the ISearch Mobile landing page, you will see the search bar. If this is your first time using ISearch Mobile, read the steps to "Find Reliable Sources for School Projects" for students and/or "Find High-Quality Digital Content for your Students" for teachers. Both sets of tips give helpful instructions on best practices for searching in ISearch.
Enter your search term in the search bar and hit enter or click the magnifying glass icon to the right of the search bar.
Advanced Search
Use Advanced Search to refine your search by using an exact phrase, remove items from search results, add additional limits such as title, author, subject, format, language, and specify Search Targets.
To find Advanced Search:
ISearch Mobile is designed to minimize the tabs you would normally see when using ISearch. This makes for a more streamlined appearance while still maintaining all of the features that make ISearch such a powerful research tool.
Where Have the Tabs Gone?
To meet the needs of users who prefer not to see the INFOhio Resource tabs, tabs have been contained in the drop-down menu that defaults to My Library. When a user performs a search, the results default to the My Library tab of results. The My Library tab will only appear if your school library automates with INFOhio's integrated library system, if your school district does not automate this tab will be shown as eBooks & Videos. Results will only come from your library collection or it will display the eBooks & Videos tab unless you use the drop-down to choose from one of the other collections: Encyclopedias, Basic Sources, Advanced Sources, STEAM, and Open Access. For more information on where the results are coming from for each tab/collection, please see the Getting to Know ISearch lesson found within the ISearch for Teachers class.
The tabbed searches for Encyclopedias, Basic Sources, Advanced Sources, STEAM, and Open Access can be found by clicking or tapping the My Library or eBooks & Videos drop-down menu found under the magnifying glass icon. Choose one of the selections and results will show from the selected database. In this example the Basic Sources tab has been selected, which will provide magazine articles on the topic at a lower reading level.
Results can be filtered by using the Filter Results link. Filters within the tabbed resources in ISearch Mobile work the same way they do in ISearch. Each tab has its own set of filters and will need to be selected again when you move to a new tab.
ISearch Mobile features limiters just like ISearch. These will help refine and narrow a search for best results. In the example below, I wanted the most current information about cats to be displayed in my search results. I chose the Published Date limiter and limited the published dates from 2018-2021 and then clicked the Apply button.
Limiters
After performing a search, your results will appear in a list. On the right side of the screen, you will see a Filter Results link. Click this to open the available filter options. Each filter can include or exclude your selections. To employ more than one filter at a time, select the filter, include or exclude your selections, wait for the list to reset, and then add a second filter, if needed.
To clear a filter, click Filter Results. To clear all of the filters, click Clear All, or if you would like to clear only certain filters, click the x next to the filter selection.
Limiters for Encyclopedias, Basic Sources, Advanced Sources, STEAM, and Open Access
First, choose a tab from the drop-down menu: Encyclopedias, Basic Sources, Advanced Sources, STEAM, and Open Access. Each selection comes with its own set of filters. Click Filter Results to locate the available filters. Full Text is always enforced unless you remove that filter yourself. Limiters do not apply across tabs, so each new tab you access will need the limiters reapplied. Remove Limiters by clicking Clear All or remove specific limiters by clicking the x corresponding to the limiter.
Once you have found an article or resource that you would like to look at, click on the ellipsis icon next to the title of the resource and select View/Download from the window.
After clicking on View/Download, information about the resource will appear including, source, document type, subjects, abstract, and if you scroll further down there will be a full text HTML version of the resource, including a read aloud option.
In the top right and left corners you will see toggle menu buttons. The toggle menu on the right is where you will find all of the sharing options for this article and the toggle menu on the left displays other full text options. All of the options available in the desktop version of ISearch are available in ISearch Mobile such as sharing to Google Classroom, Google Drive, Print, E-mail, Save, Cite, Export and Permalink. If you are not a Google Classroom school, remember that the Permalink is the link you want to use when sharing this article to students or other colleagues.
Fetch is avaiable to INFOhio automated schools. If you are an INFOhio school, please log in with your school username/password using the button at the top-left corner of this page.
For more information about Fetch, please visit the Fetch information page or contact INFOhio support at https://support.infohio.org.
