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EXAMPLES |
| AUTHOR SEARCHING |
| AUTHOR |
- Type last name first.
- If you know the first name type that or the initial in as well.
- You may also type the name of an organization or governmental body.
- If you type the name in directly, such as
"James Pankow" and nothing is found, you will be asked if you want to reverse the names and search again.
- Try searching variant forms for names beginning with De, De La, Von, etc.
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- leen
- pankow james
- black a
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Oregon Health & Science
University
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| AUTHOR/TITLE SEARCHING |
| AUTHOR/TITLE |
- If you know the author and at least part of the title, you can use this.
- You must have the author's last
name, but you can use any word from the title.
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sposito and soils retrieves the book
The Chemistry of Soils
by Garrison Sposito |
| TITLE SEARCHING |
| TITLE |
- The order of the title words must be exact.
- The first few words of the title
is usually enough.
- Do not use initial articles such as a or the .
- Check alternative spellings, e.g. aluminum, aluminium.
- You can search for journal titles here but using the Journal Title search automatically limits
your search to journals.
- Add a vertical bar ( | ) after a title to retrieve only that title.
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- dense chlorinated
- computability
- biochemistry
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| JOURNAL SEARCHING |
| JOURNAL |
- If you type in the entire title, you must type all the words, other than the initial words "a", "the", etc.
- You can type in the first few words of the title to get a list of journals.
- You can type in the title abbreviation.
- If the library also has the electronic version of the journal,
you can often link directly to that journal.
- Click on "Latest Received" to see the issues the have been recently
received.
- Using journal title search automatically eliminates books from the results.
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- new scientist
- academy of management executive
- comput intell
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| SUBJECT SEARCHING |
| SUBJECT |
- The order of words matters.
- If you don't know
the exact subject heading, do a keyword search with the term limited to the subject field, or click on the subject
headings in a specific record to get other items with the heading.
- Sometimes using keywords will
retrieve more items when a subject search does not produce many items.
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- categories (mathematics)-data processing not
data processing--categories
- operating systems--computers
- employment interviewing not job interviewing
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| KEYWORD SEARCHING |
| ADJACENCY |
- The order of words matters.
- Multiple words are
searched together as one phrase.
- For different results, use
and between each word or phrase.
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- waste products
- java and
program**
- semiconductors and insulators
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| TRUNCATION |
- Words may be internally or right-hand truncated using
an asterisk *.
- Use double asterisks ** for more than 5 characters.
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- wom*n and scien**
- comput** and program*
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BOOLEAN
OPERATORS |
- Use and or or to specify
multiple words in any field, any order.
- Use and not to
exclude words.
- Use parentheses to group words when using multiple
operators.
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- web or www
- (oregon or washington)
or (portland and not maine)
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EBOOKS |
Use the material type limit of "ebook" to limit your results to electronic books only. |
| PROXIMITY |
- Use near to specify words close to each
other, in any order.
- Use within # to specify words within a
set range of each other. Symbol # may stand for any number.
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- oregon near institute
- java
within 5 nutshelll
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| FIELDS |
- Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation.
- Fields available for this database are
- a: (author)
- t:
(title)
- s: (subject)
- n: (note.)
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- a:black and t:exception
- a:hernan
and a:duke
- s:high technology and
(t:entrepreneurial or t:profit)
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