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your search terms.
Use words
or phrases and do a KEYWORD search by selecting SEARCH EVERYTHING,
the default option.
SUBJECT is the Library of Congress Subject Heading.
If you are searching for a title, and you are not sure of the
exact title, enter only those words you know are correct.
Combine terms with and, or or not.
(teenage OR adolescent OR teen) AND health Choose
Complex Search or Call No. Browse tabs if you want to do more
than a quick search.
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- Search Everything
- Searches all fields in a record (all book information),
including chapter headings if indexed.
- Author -
Last name first will put you into a helpful browse list
if you misspell it.
- Title - Use
all or part of the title.
- Subject -
Searches only Library of Congress Subject Headings. Ask
a Librarian for help using this field.
- Periodical Title
- Periodical holdings including title and last issue received.
If you are searching for an ARTICLE, try
one of our subscription databases
or print indexes like the READERS' GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE
or THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX.
Advanced
Features
Complex Search:
To search with Boolean Operators (AND,
OR and NOT), truncate or substitute.
Truncation:
The
'$' can take the place of one or more characters to allow for
searching of variants
(Unexpected combinations might be retrieved):
folk$ = folk, folklore, folkways and folklife col$r = color,
colour, collier and collar
Substitution:
The '?' takes the place of just
one character:
Wom?n searches for both Women and Woman
Muslim? searches for both Muslims and Muslim |
