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Guided Keyword Search

Definition

A Guided Keyword search finds records using keywords located anywhere in a record, or only in specific areas of the catalog record (e.g., author, title, publisher, etc.). This search type is especially helpful if you are looking for specific items or if you would like to create a precise search strategy. Use distinctive keywords, avoiding articles and insignificant words (a, the, der, and, or, not, of, for, by, as, etc.) unless using the "as a phrase" option.


Search Strategies

Click the Pre-set Limits icon if you want to limit your keyword search based on additional criteria. These limits must be set before the search is entered.

For best results do not use unlike operators (e.g. AND and OR) when using more than two search boxes. If operators are used, they should be all AND or all OR.

In the top Search For Keyword(s): box, type the search term(s) that you would like to find. You can type one or more terms in each box. Type a ? at the end of a term to find variant forms of the term (e.g., observ? will search for observe, observed, observing, observation, etc.).

Click the top any of these pull-down list to select your option. Options are:

Bulletany of the search terms
Bulletall of the search terms
Bulletsearch terms as a phrase

Click the In pull-down list to select the areas from within the record to be searched. In options are:

BulletAnywhere
BulletTitle
BulletAuthor
BulletSubject
BulletPublisher
BulletPlace of Publication
BulletContents/Notes
BulletISSN (enter with dashes)
BulletISBN (enter without dashes)
BulletOpus/Thematic #
BulletPublisher no. (music, sound, video)
BulletForm/Genre Terms

Click the radio button for the Boolean Operator - AND, OR, or NOT - to indicate how the search terms are to be combined.

BulletAND means "find records containing both terms."
BulletOR means "find records containing either one of the terms, or both."
BulletNOT means "find records containing the first term but not the second."

You can then type additional search terms in the next Search for keyword(s): box.

Click the Search button to begin your search. Click the Reset button to clear the search page.

 

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