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Classic Search
What will this find?
Classic Search finds books, journals, audio-visual materials, databases, electronic resources, maps, music scores, rare books, sound recordings, and theses.
Type the keyword(s) you want to find. For example:
- shakespeare king lear
- veterinary medicine
Advanced Searching Tips
- Phrase Only
- To ensure that multiple words are searched together as one phrase they need to be enclosed in quotation marks.
Example : "world health organization" - Wildcards
- Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. '*' for open-ended truncation, '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word.
Examples : environment* polic*, comput*, wom? - Boolean Operators
- Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words.
Example : stocks and bonds
Example : (scotland or england) and (adventure and not holiday) - Proximity Operators
- Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.
Example : glasgow near university - Field limits
- A field limit causes the system to search only the specified field for the specified word(s).
- Grouping
- Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query.