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Aging Research from a Distance

Finding Books: Common Search Techniques

When you conduct a search on the main catalog page, the catalog auomatically searches for all the words that you enter across the most common fields, including author, title, and subject.

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The main catalog page also has a drop down menu that allows you to specify if you want to search by author or title.

Search Anywhere

The catalog automatically searches for the plural forms of nouns, but it is not currently possible to truncate your search terms or use wildcards. If you want to do a Boolean search, you can use the Boolean search field on the bottom of the Advanced Search page.

 

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Last updated: 08_05_2008