 Hi, my name is Maggie and I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama. Today, we are going to cover how to use the basic search function in Scout. Scout is the university library search tool and locates resources in our collections, including books, e-books, journal articles, news articles, videos, and more. Start at the university library's homepage, lib.ua.edu. Scout can be found in the top right hand box next to the binoculars or under the drop-down menu research tools in the very top right hand corner. Once you have entered Scout, you will see a search bar at the top of the page. This is the basic search. Advanced search is covered in another video, which I will link below. In the basic search, you can search by keyword or by title or author if you already know what resource you want. I'm going to search for the University of Alabama using the keyword option. The results of the search are in the middle of the page. The column on the left side of the screen shows ways to limit the search, and the column on the right side provides options to further extend your search. Let's look at the results first. Each result is listed as a short record with some summarizing information, including the title, publication information, subject terms, and how to find the resource. This item, the University of Alabama, a guide to the campus and its architecture, is a book. We can see its call number, where in the library it's located, and if it's available for checkout. This journal article, getting around in a college town, a case study of transportation barriers faced by international students at the University of Alabama, can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the short record, stating PDF full text. If you click on the title displayed in the short record, it will take you to a longer record page. This page usually has an abstract or summary of the resource and ways to save your search on the right column, including generating a citation, a permalink, or an option to email a link to yourself. If you click on results list at the top of the record, it will take you back to your search results. Because Scout searches the library's entire collection, it often returns a large amount of results. You can use the limiters on the left side of the page to help narrow down your results. I'm going to tell Scout to limit my results to ebooks, and I only want results published after 2015. You can also specify if you want sources in a specific language, produced by a certain publisher, or if it's a journal article to come from a certain publication. Scout searches the library's collections, which contains millions of items, but if you need to extend your search further, you can do so with the options in the right column. This column offers a few common alternative places to search, such as WorldCat, which will search other library's collections, HathiTrust, which contains many older or out-of-print resources, and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, which is an international database of theses and dissertations. This column also has links to the University of Alabama Research Guides, which can help direct you to more specific databases and the librarian for your subject. If you want to keep a record of this specific search, you can click the share drop-down menu in the right corner of the results page. This gives you the option to create a permalink back to this results page or export your results through email, although I would suggest only doing that with fewer results. Remember to always use the permalink, both for sources and for saving your search, rather than the URL. If you have any questions about Scout or need further assistance, please don't hesitate to use our Ask a Librarian chat at ask.lib.ua.edu or contact the library. Thanks!