Advanced Search
Basics: How Do Quick and Advanced Search Work?
Quick Search
- searches against Full Text, Titles/Subtitles, Authors, Keywords, Abstracts, and ISSN, ISBN, and DOI
- combines multiple terms by default (AND), so results will include all of your terms
- can be modified with NOT, OR, and "" for exact phrases
Advanced Search
- Search with free text terms only, with any selection of filters only, or with a combination of free text terms and any selection of filters
- Free text search options where you type in your term(s)
- "Anywhere" searches against Full Text, Titles/Subtitles, Authors, Keywords, Abstracts, and ISSN, ISBN, and DOI (like Quick Search)
- "Title" searches against title and subtitle, including book, chapter, article and working paper titles
- "Author" searches against any author or editor
- "Keywords" searches against the entire list of Keywords
- "Abstract" searches against the entire set of abstracts
- can be modified with AND, NOT, OR, and “” for exact phrases
- Filter search options where you select one or more specific filters
- Publication date
- Combines multiple selections (AND) so results will include all of your filters
- Provides results with expanded filter set for further refining
Search Results
- include any combination of full books, recent book chapters, and journal articles
- have an expanded set of filters to further refine
- Content Type filters by book, journal, or working papers, depending on your results
- Keyword
- Author
- Publication Date
- provide Save Search option, as well as easy access to "Search History" and "Saved Searches" (see bottom right of Results screen)
Getting Good Search Results
- For specific or well-known concept(s)
- Search for your terms in "Abstract" OR "Keywords" because these are most closely tied to concepts in each publication
- If you do not get results, search for the same concept "Anywhere" which will capture full text instances of that same term, and you can refine with filters from there
- Example:
- Use "Abstract" OR "Keywords" for "natural disaster"
- Use "Anywhere" for "tornado"
