Enter the last name followed by part or all of the first name. To search for an organization as author, enter the first part of the organization's name.

• eliot t
• chicago symphony orch

These searches automatically truncate to the right when abbreviated. For example, the title "Statistical abstract of " retrieves all titles that start with those words.

Limits can be applied to Title searches, but not to Author or Transportation Subject Heading searches.

Enter the title or first part of the title. Omit any initial article, regardless of language.

• right stuff
• critique of pure
• age of the rena

Variations in spelling may affect your search. Try alternatives.

Use Transportation Subject Headings:

• motor vehicles
• railroads

If you do not know the official subject heading try a Keyword search.

Use the Boolean operators and, or, and not to combine search terms. Use quotation marks to indicate that terms should be searched as a phrase. Use parentheses to group search terms.

• "human rights" and "east timor"
• (twain and criticism) Not (huck? or tom)

Use ? to truncate a search term. A search for

comput?

retrieves "computer," "computers," "computing," etc.

Limits may be used in Keyword searches.

Enter a word or phrase.

• Human rights
• Fall of the house

Browse searches drop you into an alphatical list, regardless of whether an exact match exists for your search.

• Author browse "wolfe" will drop you into a list of author headings with all the authors "wolfe" and those alphabetically before (e.g. "wolf") and after (e.g. "wolff")

Browse searches automatically truncate to the right when abbreviated. For example, the title "Statistical abstract of " retrieves all titles that start with those words.

Limits do not function in Browse searches.