ADVANCED SEARCHING
Enter search terms (words or phrases) in one or more of the search boxes and click on
Search.
To change the type of search (e.g. author, title) select from the drop down list on the left.
Add More gives additional rows.
A wildcard (*) can be used to find variant word endings or
alternative spellings, e.g. ecolog* finds ecology, ecologies, ecological; speciali*e finds specialise and specialize.
All these words returns results containing all terms (e.g. where marine ecology is entered in the Title search box the search retrieves items with
both
‘marine’ and ‘ecology’ in the Title).
Any of these words
returns results containing all or any terms (e.g. where marine ecology is entered in the Title search box the
search retrieves items with
either marine or ecology in the Title).
Exact phrase retrieves items that match the exact phrase entered in the Title textbox.
To construct other search combinations use the dropdown fields on the far right for AND/OR/NOT:
-
AND retrieves items that have both ‘birds’ in the Title field AND ‘John Gould’
in the Author field such as: The birds of Australia by John Gould
- OR retrieves items that have either birds
in the Title field OR ’John Gould' in the Author field such as: A paradise for birds by J.R. Kinghorn; Australian marsupials and monotremes
by John Gould
- NOT retrieves items that have ‘birds’
in the Title field but NOT ‘John Gould’ in the Author field, e.g. Birds and the bush by Keith Hindwood but not
The birds of Great Britain by John Gould
Limit search results by material
Type or publication
Date. The default
sorting of search results is by Relevance but can be changed using the
Order
By drop down list to Title, Author or Year.