Keyword search
This lets you search for particular words in the title/author/subject of a work and can help you find:
- material on a particular topic
- items where only part of the title is known
- items where only part of the author's name is known.
Keyword search examples:
| Shakespeare Midsummer | will find 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and related works. |
| Orwell farm | will find 'Animal Farm' and related works. |
| "transport pollution" | will find items containing both words occurring together. Known as a phrase search. |
| transport pollution | will find items containing both words in any order. |
| transport* pollution | will find items beginning with the word stem "transport" (eg transport, transportation) and pollution. Using the single asterisk * is known as truncation. It will match up to five characters. Use a double asterisk ** to match more than five characters. |
| traffic OR transport | will find items containing either the word "traffic" or the word "transport". |
| (traffic OR transport) pollution | will find items containing either the words "traffic" and "pollution" or the words "transport" and "pollution". |
| transport NEAR pollution | will find items containing both words near to each other. |
| waste minimi?ation | will find items about waste minimization or waste minimisation. The ? replaces a single character. |
| theses transport | will find theses about transport. Use the Theses search option to find theses from a particular department. |
- Results are grouped by relevancy and displayed 50 to a page
- Your keywords are highlighted in red in the Catalogue record
- You can Limit/sort/refine your keyword search.
