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Keyword
Search
When
you search by keyword, every online catalog record is checked for the word
or words you enter in the Search for: box. A record will be retrieved
if the words appear in almost any part of the record, including the title,
subtitle, author, publishing information, notes, and subject fields.
You
can do a Keyword search in Orbis without using a boolean operator. A script
will automatically insert a boolean AND between your
search terms.
If
you prefer to manually construct Keyword searches with boolean operators,
you can still do so.
Combine several terms using Boolean operators :
and, or, or not, with truncation and nesting.
Keyword searches
are useful if you do not know the authorized subject
heading for your subject, or if you have incomplete or complex information
about a title or author.
Keyword searches
can retrieve large result sets. To help you refine your search and retrieve
more meaningful results, use Search Limits, Boolean
operators, truncation, and/or nesting.
Please
Note:
- Truncation:
Use ? at the end of a search word for truncation: e.g., ecol? will search
for ecology, ecological, etc.
- Enclose
exact search phrases in quotation marks: e.g., "middle ages".
Truncation may be included within quoted phrases: e.g., "british
theat?" will search for British theater and also British theatre.
- Omit intervening
commas, periods, apostrophes and most other punctuation. Retain hyphens
and internal commas or periods (commas or periods within numbers), but
those terms must be bounded by quotation marks.
"1,001
broadways" or "1.001 poemas"
"al-jazeera"
- Include
abbreviated articles:
lenfant
will retrieve l'enfant
enfant will retrieve mon enfant, mère-enfant; it will not retrieve
l'enfant
- Boolean
operators:
Combine several terms using Boolean operators; use and, or,
or not to combine one-word search terms:
italy
not renaissance
color or
colour
- Use
nesting (parentheses) to further refine a Boolean search: e.g.,
to find materials on Mayan pyramids or temples, enter (temple? or pyramid?)
and maya?
- Use quotation
marks to search for phrases:
"global warming" "great britain"
 
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