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- Enter a word or phrase into the Keyword field.
- If desired, narrow your
search using the search fields.
- Click Search.
For more help searching, visit a section below:
You can focus your search with the search fields below.
The more terms you enter, the narrower your search results will
be.
| Field |
Description |
| Keyword |
Enter a Keyword or words in this field. The search engine
will search all indexed fields, including the abstract.
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| Title |
Enter terms to be found
in the Title of the work. |
| Author |
Enter the name of the
Author. The name can be entered as either "First name Last
name" (e.g. John Baker) or "Last name, First name"
(e.g. Baker, John). |
| Publication Data |
Enter the publisher or
place the work was published. |
| Place of Publication |
Enter the place the work was published.
This is generally a city. |
| Imprint |
Enter terms to find within
the Imprint of the work. |
| Fiche Number |
Enter the Fiche Number
including any hyphens. |
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You can search multiple fields at one time. The terms
will be connected using the Boolean operator AND.
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You should use "double quotes" to search
for exact phrases. Example: "fifteenth century"
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You can use the following wildcard characters to find
variations of a single term:
| ? |
The symbol
? is used to replace any single character, either inside the
word or the right end of the word. ? cannot be used to begin
a word.
Example: wom?n will retrieve results containing
'women' and 'woman'. |
| *
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The * symbol
is used at the end of your term to find all forms of a word.
Example: unit* will retrieve results containing
'unit', 'unity' and 'united'. |
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Use the Boolean operators below to broaden and narrow
your search.
| AND |
Find all the words.
Example: united AND nations |
| AND NOT |
Find records which have the first
word, but not the second word.
Example: united AND NOT nations |
| OR |
Find any of the words.
Example: united OR nations |
Boolean operators can be typed in either upper case
letters (e.g. 'AND') or lower case letters (e.g. 'and').
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Stop words are words which form part of the system's
search query language, and which therefore cannot be searched on
in the normal way. To search for a stop word as a keyword, enclose
it in double quotation marks.
Example: fifteenth "and" century will retrieve
documents containing 'fifteenth', 'and', and 'century'.
The stop words are AND, EXACT, BY,
NEAR, NOT and OR.
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