Advanced Quicksearch Search Help

Advanced Search

You will find the Advanced Search link to the right of the search box when you are in Catalog [1].  Sample screen illustrates the location of the Advanced Search link.

The Advanced Search window:

In Advanced Search, you can

• search up to 5 rows of terms or phrases
• choose from 17 fields (author, title, subject, etc.) or All Fields (keyword) per row
• connect rows with Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT 

You may also limit on the opening search screen by

• format
• library
• location within a library (for example, Sterling Memorial Library - Starr - Reference; start typing the name of a library, then scroll and click on the location within it)
• language (start typing the name of the language to narrow the list)
• publication date or date range

After searching, click on Modify Search to edit your search.

Searching for Multiple Terms

• If there are 1-6 terms or phrases in one box, all are required
• If there are more than 6 terms or phrases in one box, 80% are required

If a word is misspelled, therefore, it is possible you will land on the "no results" page.

Boolean Searching

1. General Order of Precedence:  Not/And/Or
2. Exception - If two rows are joined by an ‘OR’ operator, and they are searching on the same field (for example - Title:data or Title:numeric), then they are converted to a Solr min-match, essentially grouping them in parentheses.

So the assumption is that a search for:

 
"Title:data or Title:numeric and Title: Python" means
(Title: data or Title: numeric) and Title: Python
 
"All Fields: modern AND Title: poesia AND Subject: portugal OR All Fields: brazil" means
(Allfields: modern OR All fields: brazil) AND Title: poesia and Subject: Portugal

The diagram below illustrates the first search above where the red area shows the results of the search: