Answered By: Rebecca Marrall
Last Updated: Sep 09, 2016     Views: 63

The ‘Virtual Browse’ mode is a feature in OneSearch that displays the physical resources available in Western Libraries and attempts to simulate a ‘browsing the shelves’ experience for the user -- but in a virtual environment.

When you click on the item on the virtual shelf, it directs you the OneSearch catalog record but does not provide electronic access to the text (because, in some cases, we simply do not have electronic access).

Here is an example:

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  1. For the past few weeks I haven't seen the Virtual Browse feature on any entries in OneSearch. Has this feature been removed permanently?
    by Serena on Jan 04, 2017.

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