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Type the keyword(s) in the box below then press Enter or click the Search button. Type the keywords you want to find. For example:
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| Search Tips | |
| Phrase Searching | Use quotation marks around words when searching for an exact phrase Example : "television violence" |
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| Common Words |
Common words, such as of or as are indexed and searched.
Example : Book of job |
| Boolean Operators |
and - all terms must be found; narrows a search Example : television and violence or - any of the terms may be found; broadens a search Example : "mass media" or television and not - excludes the term(s) Example : mexico and not "new mexico" |
| Nesting |
Surround terms with parentheses that are joined by or if you also have an and in the search. Nesting removes the relevancy ranking.
Example : ("mass media" or television) and violence |
| Proximity Operators |
The Boolean operators are generally more useful in searching a library catalog, but there are operators you can use if you want to search for the words close to one another. near specified words or phrases are within 10 words of each otherExample : women near islam within # specify the maximum number of words that may appear between the words or phrases Example : decision within 3 theory To retrieve records with the words or phrases in a particular order use |
| Searching Operators as Words |
If you want to search an operator as a word, enclose it in quotation marks. If you want to search an operator as part of a phrase, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. Example : "after school" programs Example : "near east" Example : "of mice and men" and criticism |
| Wildcards & Truncation |
? - The question mark ('?') matches one non-space character, starting at the specified position in the word. Examples : cat? matches cat or cats; wom?n matches woman or women; theat?? matches theater or theatre but not theatrical * - The asterisk ('*') matches up to five non-space characters, starting at the specified position in the word. For example, "inter*" will match "internal" and "internet", but will not match "international". The '*' wildcard may only appear after at least two characters. Examples : psycholog* matches psychology or pyschological; vot* matches vote, votes, voted, voter, voters, voting, votive The '*' wildcard may also be embedded in a search string. Example : colo*r matches both "color" and "colour" ** - Matches any number of non-space characters, starting at the specified position in the word. Example : Dost** and criticism matches records with Dostoevskii or Dostoyevsky and the word criticism (as well as a few other things) |