| Title or journal title |
enter as much
of the title as you know:
old man and the sea
journal of environmental economics
omit any initial article (a, al, an,
the, der, el, l', la, etc.):
posterite de l'affaire Dreyfus |
| Author |
search for author's last name first:
oates joyce c
use direct word order for organizations or groups:
american chemical
society
|
| Keywords |
use to combine search terms together (the system automatically adds 'and' between the terms)
morrison beloved
Egypt foreign relations
use ? to truncate:
econ? finds economy,
economical, economics, etc.
use quotes to search phrases (use only two words between the quotes):
"african americans"
"global warming"
|
Relevance keyword
|
use + to search essential terms; leave spaces between
words:
+cuba +politics
use quotes to search exact phrases:
"free market"
"mourning becomes electra"
use ! to indicate words that must not appear:
psychology
!child
use ? to truncate:
environ? finds
environment, environmental, environs
Do not use and, not, or to combine terms |
| Subject heading |
enter a Library of Congress subject heading:
united states
history civil war
literature modern
20th century
|
| Call number |
enter as much of the call number as you know:
PR4753
HT166.M264
1976
2264.108.3746
1996 |
| Author/Composer--sorted by
title |
use for composers or prolific authors
enter author's last name first:
shakespeare william |
| Command keyword |
use and, or, not to combine
search terms:
italy and renaissance
gatsby and fitzgerald
use ? to truncate:
environ? finds environs, environment, environmental, etc.
use quotes to search phrases:
"global warming"
"great britain" "sound and the fury"
use parentheses to group search terms:
(modern or contemp?)
and paint? |
