Topics provides a quick 'point and click' facility for finding information about Scottish culture.

Topics represents a selection of resources that can be found through Scotland's Culture, use our search facility for more specific searches.

• If you know where your topic is listed use browse by topic
  Select a link on the left-hand side of the screen to navigate through the topic lists.
  
  Select your search target from the options presented in the drop downlist, where available and click 'go':
  
  • Scotland's Culture - electronic resources
  • SCONE (Scottish Collections Network) - collections
  • CAIRNs (Co-operative Information Retrieval Network) - items
    
    

• If you are not sure where your topic might be listed use the A-Z topic list
  A-Z shows all topics within the service, listing related broader/ narrower topics and which preferred word the service has used.
  (e.g. Soccer see Football).
  
  Broader, Narrower and related topics are shown as BT [+] NT [+] and See. Use the + symbol to expand and - symbol
  to collapse a list.
  
  Topics listed on the left of the screen will take you to the relevant search. BT, NT and See topics listed on the right will direct you to the preferred topic in the A-Z list.
  
  

• If you are not sure what words the service has used for your topic, use search topics

Enter your word/s to find a topic within the service, limit to one or two words to retrieve the maximum number of hits. The results will include any topic that include or are similar to your words.