KEYWORDS Search
Use the KEYWORDS search to look for significant words about the items you want.
KEYWORDS may come from anywhere (titles, authors, subjects, etc.).
Search KEYWORDS if you know some words from a title, author, or subject but not the full entry.
Selecting KEYWORDS to search:
- Use KEYWORDS that are as specific and definitive as possible. For example: climatology (rather than "weather").
- Try synonyms of your terms, or think of alternate ways to express the concepts you are searching. For example: contraception or (birth control).
- Try variant spellings. For example: absurd and (theater or theatre).s
Other KEYWORDS functions:
- With the KEYWORDS search, you can also combine significant KEYWORDS from author and title together, author and subject together, subject and publisher together, etc.
- The KEYWORDS search allows searching adjacent KEYWORDS, or you can specify operators AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR, or WITHIN "n".
- You can truncate KEYWORDS to retrieve variant endings.
- The KEYWORDS search also allows you to specify other attributes about the items you're seeking, such as Language, Material Type, Location, and Publication Year. Results can be sorted by date, relevance, or alphabetically.
If you have questions, ask library staff for help.
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