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A how-to guide for electronic resources
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Basic Search Tips
Here are a few ways to get more relevant results...
Use
quotation marks
around phrases.
EXAMPLE:
“saint patrick”
will retrieve…
The Life of Saint Patrick
by Quentin James
saint patrick
will retrieve…
The Geology of Mount Saint Helens
by Patrick Pringle
Use a
capitalized OR
to search for different possible words or phrases.
EXAMPLE:
irish OR celtic
will retrieve results that have either the word Irish or Celtic in them.
Use
parentheses
to specify the order of how words are searched.
EXAMPLE:
(irish OR celtic OR ireland) AND history
will retrieve results that contain the word history and contain either the word Irish, Celtic, or Ireland.
Use an
asterisk (*)
at the end of a root word to find results with variant endings.
EXAMPLE:
histor*
will retrieve history, historical, historian, etc.
Use the
Advanced Search
screen to search for keywords in a title, subject, author etc.
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