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Basic Keyword Search
Type the keywords you want to find. For example:
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 the NEW catalog keyword search option!
| Other Catalog Searches:
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| Adjacency | Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. Examples : canadian studies, cambridge university press, nepalese women |
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| Wildcards |
Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. '*' for 1-5 characters, '**' for open-ended truncation, '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word. Examples : environment* polic*, Huck** Finn, wom?n [finds woman, women, and womyn] |
| Boolean Operators |
Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Example : bernstein and conduct* Example : great lakes or inland lakes Example : art therapy and not music therapy Example : (femini* or women) and science [finds items with words"feminist and science" OR "women and science"] |
| Proximity Operators |
Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.The WITHIN operator is similar to the NEAR operator, but allows the user to specify the maximum number of words that may appear between the specified words. WITHIN 10 and NEAR are equivalent. Example : wind near gone Example : gone within 3 wind Example : welfare near moth** |
| Field limits |
A field limit causes the system to search only the specified field for the specified word(s). To search by field, use field abbreviations. Available fields are: a: (author names) t: (words from title) s: (words in subject headings) n: (words from Notes fields) Example : t:batman and s:superhero Example : a:faulkner and t:hamlet |
| Grouping | Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query. |
