Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

LUKAS - the SLU library catalogue


In LUKAS you find the SLU libraries collection of printed books, reports and journals. E-books and e-journals holdings are not complete in LUKAS. In LUKAS you also find Swedish journal articles within SLU subject areas (1983-).



Examples of material in LUKAS

The library catalogue LUKAS contains about 300.000 records, of which 210.000 is books and reports, 23.000 are journals and 65.000 Swedish journal articles (mainly from 1983-2004). The holdings of e-journals and e-books is not complete in the catalogue. Search in Find Journal, or the e-book publishers for e-books.

Book Report Journal Journal Article


Search hints

The key to good subject searching in LUKAS is to search for keywords. The keywords are found at the end of the records under the heading AGROVOC.

To search e.g. documents on dogs used in hunting use the AGROVOC keyword hunting dogs:
hunting dog*

An asterisk (*) searches all endings of a word: dog* finds dog or dogs. This is called truncation.

The operatorors OR, AND are used to combine the keywords: OR for synonyms, AND for two different things that you want in the search result. The words are grouped with parentheses.

Example:
(wild boar* or sus scrofa) and swed*
finds document on wild boar in Sweden.

Read more about how to search in Search Collect Publish.

Agrovoc Thesaurus - our source for the keywords





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