Use quotation marks to search for words together as one phrase.

"united states supreme court"

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 truncat ion.

environment* polic*

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. The catalog automatically does an "and " search on multiple words. If no results are found in an "and" search, the catalog will broaden the search to an "or" search.

(alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation)

If nothing found, the catalog will automatically search for ((alaska or canada) or (adventure or vacation))

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

Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a: (author), t: (title), s: (subject), and n: (note.)

(a:twain) and (t:huck**)
(a:united and a:states) and (s:handicapped or s:disabled)