Search Examples for Each Type of Search
| choose type of search | enter word/s to search |
| word/s anywhere |
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| title beginning with |
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| title word/s |
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| author beginning with |
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| author word/s |
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| subject beginning with |
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| subject words |
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| call number |
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Tips for Basic Searches
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DO NOT use initial articles a, an, the, and their foreign equivalents.
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Case does not matter. You can use lower- or upper-case letters.
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You can use the Boolean operators AND and OR in your search string. For
example, to retrieve all records having the word "heart" or "cardiac" in
them, together with the word "surgery," you could type: (heart or
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Use the ? character to find matches that contain portions of words. For example, dog? will retrieve dog, dogs, dogged, dogma, dogsled, etc.
