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• Use * for wildcard characters: psycho* to get psychological, psychology, psychologist, psychotherapy.
• Use "" for phrases in exact order: "make people" to get How everyday products make people sick but not The people make a nation.
• Use "" for phrases in exact order: "make people" to get How everyday products make people sick but not The people make a nation.
Keyword search will search ALL title, author, isbn, call number, etc., in no particular order.
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*Limit by Language: You can limit your search by language. Some items have multiple languages and will show up for any of the languages it contains.
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- economics colander 7th - Will find a book titled Economics by David C. Colander, 7th edition.
- psycho* buddh* 2008 - Will find items with psychologist, psychology, psychotherapy, or psychological and Buddha, Buddhist, or Buddhism and 2008 in its description.
- "world is flat" Friedman - Will a book called The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.
- 9780691121758 - Will find a book called Advances in Behavioral Finance.
- 佛教 日本 - Chinese/Japanese/Korean words should be separated by a space. 佛教 will not find 教佛。
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Title keyword search will search the title, series title, and alternative titles in no particular order.
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- lotus sutra - Will find books with Lotus Sutra in the title, and it will also find Fragments of a manuscript of the Saddharmapundarikasutra from Khadaliq with Lotus Sutra manuscript series as a series title.
- *abhidha* - Will find items with words like Tantrābhidhāna, Glimpses of abhidharma, or Abhidhammapiṭake in the title.
- "big business" "pop culture" - Will find a book titled American skin : pop culture, big business, and the end of white America.
- 佛教 日本 - Chinese/Japanese/Korean words should be separated by a space. 佛教 will not find 教佛。
*Limit by Language: You can limit your search by language. Some items have multiple languages and will show up for any of the languages it contains.
Author keyword search will search the all the authors' names separated by a space, in no particular order.
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- Frederick Charles Copleston - Will find items by Copleston, Frederick Charles.
- Reeve Warren - Will find items by Carl S. Warren, James M. Reeve.
- "Zhang, Ailing" - Will find items by the exact author Zhang, Ailing.
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ISBN/ISSN search will search an item's ISBN or a journal's ISSN.
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- 0374292884 - Will find a book called The World is Flat.
- 0031-8221 - Will find a journal titled Philosophy East and West.
Separate subject words or phrases by a space.
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- religion "united states" - Will find items with religion and united states in the subject field.
- "computer network" - Will find items with phrase computer network in the subject field.
- network* - Will find items with word network, networks, networking in the subject field.
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Use a space to find different parts of the call number.
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- HD30.22.P45 - Will find items such as HD30.22.P45 1990.
- BQ20 - Will find items with call numbers that start with BQ20, including BQ200, BQ2000.
- BQ20. - Will find items with call numbers that start with BQ20., such as BQ20.W74 1992 and BQ20.W72 C66 1900z.
- RA 2008 - Will find items with call numbers that contains RA and 2008.
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Limits keyword search to media items. Media items include DVDs, VCDs, VHSs, CD-ROMs.
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*Limit by Language: You can limit your search by language. Some items have multiple languages or subtitles and will show up for any of the languages it contains.
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- inconvenient truth - Will find An Inconvenient Truth.
- DVD - Will find all DVDs.
- CD - Will find all CDs.
- VHS - Will find all VHS.
*Limit by Language: You can limit your search by language. Some items have multiple languages or subtitles and will show up for any of the languages it contains.
Limits keyword search to journals. Omit 'the' and 'a'.
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*Limit by Language: You can limit your search by language. Some journals have articles in multiple languages and will show up for any of the languages it contains.
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- wall street - Will find Wall Street Journal.
- anthro* - Will find all journals with the keywords anthropology, anthropologist, anthropological.
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Limits keyword search to theses and dissertations.
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- Tom Chan Bodhisattva - Will find The Bodhisattva ideal in early... by Tom Chan.
- *sutra - Will find theses and dissertations with the keyword somethingSUTRA, The Sutra on the Ocean-like..., An analysis of the Astasahasrikaprajnaparmitasutra....
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