• Basic Search finds results that contain all of your search terms. These may match keywords in a title, an author name, a subject, an abstract, or other descriptions.
  • Advanced Search lets you pre-limit a search to specific fields, material types, and publication dates.

  • Browse Search is the best way to check the availability of a known item. You can browse by Author, Title, Subject, or call number. Because it's an alphabetical entryway into the library catalog, you can browse for just the first few letters or words or characters to see what's listed.
  • After submitting a search, use the facets (found on the left-side of the search results) to limit to items by availability, institution, library, subject, etc. You can also include or exclude individual facets.
  • The * character can be used as a wildcard in place of one or more characters. [Example: immigra*; wom*n; president* 
  • Enclosing your search in quotes "" will only return results with an exact match.
  • Searches can also be nested within (), combined with "" and Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT (case-sensitive).