Simple
Searching:
Keyword
search tips:
- enter words and/or phrases above
- use quotes to search phrases:
"world wide web"
- use + to mark essential terms:
university college +education +statistics
- use ? to truncate: typing teen?
brings up teen, teens, teenager, teenagers, etc., and wom?n finds
woman and women
- use ! to eliminate terms: +pollution
+air !sound !noise
- do not use AND, OR, or NOT.
Use + and - signs instead
Author, Title,
Journal Title, and
Subject search
tips:
- the system automatically truncates
on the right, e.g. typing the word teen brings up teen, teens, teenager,
etc.
- searching by author:
enter the last name first
- searching by title or journal
title: enter as much of the title as you know, omitting initial
articles (a, the, la, los)
- searching by subject:
enter a subject heading, omitting all punctuation, e.g. environmental degradation
Boolean
search tips:
- use and, or, not to combine
search terms
- use quotes to search
phrases, e.g. to search for the phrase educational technology type "educational
technology" (using quotation marks)
- use opening and closing parentheses
to group search terms, e.g. (guns or firearms) and schools
- use ? to truncate, e.g. teen?
finds teen, teens, teenager, etc.
Call number
search tips:
- enter as much of the call number
as you know, ignoring spaces
Advanced
Search Tips:
- enter search terms in box
- use drop-down menus to define
scope of terms
- choose a field (keyword anywhere,
title, author, subject, etc.)
- to combine sets, choose from drop-down
menu (AND, OR, NOT)