Advanced Search
You will find the Advanced Search link to the right of the search box when you are in Books+. Sample screen illustrates the location of the Advanced Search link.
This powerful search engine brings a new level of sophistication to searching Books+, and has features that are not available in Orbis or Morris.
In Advanced Search, you can
- search up to 5 rows of terms or phrases
- choose from 14 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
- 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 1-2 clauses, all are required
- If there are 3-5 clauses, all but one are required
- If there are 6 clauses, all but two are required
- If there are more than 6 clauses, 90% is required
When a search uses three or more clauses, therefore, some of the results will contain most but not all of the clauses entered.
Boolean Searching
- General Order of Precedence: Not/And/Or
- 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 parens.
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