Keyword Search in the Library Catalogue
Use this option in order to look throughout the catalogue record for your keyword(s).
The words can be combined in the ways shown below.
Use the limits for a more efficient search. Assistance with truncation and using boolean operators (and, or & not) is also available.
Type in Words to search: |
Examples |
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| Keywords | Use a single word or multiple words, to find "all of these words", in any order, anywhere in the record. | greenhouse truth value nursing media |
| Phrase | A phrase must be enclosed in quotation marks. Multiple words are searched together as one phrase, in exact order as entered. | "australian legal history" "united nations" |
| Operators | Use "or" between words to find "any of these words" in any field, in any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Parentheses ( ) group words together when using Boolean operators. |
flowers or flora tertiary and not education (television or media) gender |
| Truncation | Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation. |
shakespear* theat*
adolescent psych** |
| Wildcards | A question mark ? matches any single character in the specified position in the word. A single asterisk * wildcard can also be embedded in a search string. |
anders?n would match both "anderson" and "andersen"
colo*r would match both "color" and "colour" |
| Proximity | Use " near " to specify words within 10 words of each other in the same field, in any order. Use " within # " to specify terms which occur within # words of each other in the record. The " before " and " after " operators are used to retrieve records that contain the specified words or phrases in a particular order in the record. Any number of words can appear between the specified words or phrases. |
heritage near management
fiji within 3 econom* chester before arthur |
| Fields | Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a: (author), t: (title), s: (subject), and n: (note.) | a:carey and t:lucinda (a:victoria and a:education) and (s:handicapped or s:disabled) n:off air |
| Complex Queries | Complex queries can be constructed by mixing single words, phrases in quotation marks, operators, truncation symbols, proximity operators, etc in a single search request. | "annotated bibliography" child* |
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