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Find books, journals, digital resources, reports etc.
eg. All Collections, Journals, Warwick Theses |
Access full-text articles by searching for the title of the journal (in Journals Collection)
climate irwin - finds both words
"war and peace" - finds phrase
ethic* - finds ethic, ethics, ethical
(blues or jazz) and music - you may use search operators ( ) or and
More search tips?| Keyword Search | |
| Multiple Words | By default, the Library catalogue will search for items that include all search words. There is no need to include 'and' between words. Use more words to narrow your search. energy carbon policy energy AND carbon AND policy all occur in records. |
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| Exact Phrase | Search for an exact phrase by enclosing the phrase in double quotation marks. "just in time" "new england" "war and peace" "a to z" |
| Wildcards |
Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. * for 1-5 characters, ** for open-ended truncation, ? to replace a single character anywhere within a word. democra* finds democracy, democracies, democratic comput** finds computer, computers, computing, computational wom?n finds woman, women |
| Search operators |
Use and, or, and not and brackets to create focused searches. (blues or jazz) and music radiation and not nuclear |
| Proximity operators |
Use near to specify words close to each other, in any order. cambridge near university The within operator is similar to the near operator, but allows the user to specify the maximum number of words that may appear between the specified words. british within 5 politics fractal within 2 geometry before and after also act as search operators. death before god If you want to include the words AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR, AFTER, BEFORE or WITHIN as part of your search, you must enclose these words (or the entire phrase) in quotation marks to force the system to search them as normal words, and not to function as operators between words. |
| Field limits | A Keyword search looks for words that occur anywhere in the title, author, subject and other fields. You may use field limits to search only in a specified field. You may limit to author fields (a:), title fields (t:), subject fields (d:) and notes (n:) fields. a:kerouac t:road finds records with kerouac in author fields AND road in title fields. d:ecology finds records with ecology in subject fields. Alternatively use Advanced search. |
| Stop words and case | "Stop" words are ignored in keyword searching. The following simple english words are stopwords: a, an, the. The following Boolean search operators are also "stop" words: and, and not, or, near, within, before, after. If you intend to use any of those words as search terms as opposed to operators, they need to be in quotation marks for the system to understand that. Searches are not case-sensitive. |
| Punctuation | Most punctuation and sign characters are converted and searched as a SPACE character. Here are the exceptions: an Ampersand ( & ) is searched as "and" , an Apostrophe is ignored, and a Colon will always cause a search to fail unless the phrase is enclosed in double-quotes or the colon is used for FIELD searching. |
| Results display |
Keyword search results are grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by reverse date. To get an ungrouped result choose date or title in the 'relevance | date | title' menu in top blue search box. Advanced searches give ungrouped results. |
