Search by KEYWORDS in Titles, Author names, Subject Headings, and Notes.
To narrow searches, connect words with AND and NOT and use exact phrases.
To broaden searches, connect words with OR. Use * to truncate words.
EXAMPLES (more information and examples are below):
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| ADJACENCY | Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. |
United States supreme court
federal civil procedure |
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| TRUNCATION | Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation. |
bank* [will pick up bank and banking, but not bankruptcy]
bank** [will pick up bankruptcy as well]
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| OPERATORS | Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Parentheses group words together when using Boolean operators. |
(annotated bibliography) and child*
(alaska or canada) and (adventure not vacation) |
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| PROXIMITY | Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use "within #" to specify terms which occur within # words of each other in the record. |
california near university
america within 3 econom* | |
| FIELDS |
Specify fields to search with field
abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a:
(author), t: (title), s:
(subject), and n: (notes and additional keywords) |
(a:twain) and
(t:huck*) (a:united and a:states) and (s:handicapped or s:disabled) |
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