keyword search help

Type words or phrases to find in any of the subject, title, author and note fields. Use the methods outlined below to create your search query.

• Adjacency Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. United States supreme court
• Truncation Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation. environment* polic* fyodor dost**
• Operators Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Parentheses group words together when using Boolean operators. (annotated bibliography) and child* (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation)
• Proximity Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use "within #" to specify terms which occur within # words of each other in the record. California near university america within 3 econom*
• Fields Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a: (author), t: (title), s: (subject), and N: (note). (a:united and a:states) and (s:handicapped or s:disabled)

title search help

Type all or part of the title, beginning with the first word. The catalog will look for words in exactly the order they are entered. Omit only the initial articles, such as The, Eine, Una, Le.

• Journal of American Culture Kleine Nachtmusik 100 years of solitude 100 years

author search help

Type all or part of the name. Authors can be people, government agencies, organizations, countries or conferences.

• person (last name first) Angelou, Maya angelou
• organization Brookings Institution Willamette University United States Army
• conference name conference on aging

subject heading search help

Type all or part of the Library of Congress Subject Heading. Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings list to look up the correct subject heading.

• topic african americans education higher
• personal name Chavez Cesar
• place name nairobi kenya

Or, you can do a keyword search to look for keywords in the title, contents note, or subject headings.

ISBN/ISSN search help

Type all or part of the number. Omit hyphens for ISBN searches, but include them for ISSN searches.

• ISBN 0415900034
• ISSN 0021-8448

OCLC search help

Type all or part of the number.

• 4567054

call number search help

Type all or part of the call number from the beginning; include decimals. Government documents include publications from the United States, Oregon, and Canada. You must include spaces, capitalization, and punctuation; please remember to type a space after the first letter.

• Library of Congress QA1.S5 QA
• AV (Dewey) DANCO 308 LONDON 435167
• Government Documents C 51.2:T 22/3 C 51.2: Y 1.1/3:99-16