Advanced Search
The advanced search button  is located in the top right corner in the blue search bar on every page.
The form is divided into three major sections:
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Each section provides additional criteria that you can use to further your search. Use as many or as few of the criteria required to achieve the results you need.
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Limit the scope of your search for precise results
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Limit the scope of your search by choosing to search a subset of the library
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Add up to three additional search criteria, each one with different constraints
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1. Limit the scope of your search for precise results.
- Content: Full Text
- Search the full-text of each title, as well as the descriptive content.
- General Info: All
- Search only the descriptive content
- General Info: - Titles, - ISBNs, - Authors/Speakers, - Publishers
- Search only the specific Info field
- Content: Code Listing
- Search only text that has been marked a "Code Listing"
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Enter a word or phrase into the search box. Then choose the type of search you would like to perform:
- Words in proximity
- Results are ranked based on how close words appear within the same HTML page
- Any words
- Results are based on the occurrence of any of the words specified
- All words
- Results are based on the occurrence of all of the words within an HTML page
- Exact Phrase
- Results are based on the occurrence of the phrase exactly as entered
- Boolean
- Recognizes AND, OR, and NOT in your search statement as Boolean operators
2. You can further limit the scope of your search by choosing to search a subset of the library:
- Personal Folders
- Search either all folders or a specific folder, including any corporate folders
- Collections
- Search books found in one or more specific collections
3. You can add up to three additional search criteria, each one with different constraints. This also allows you to limit your search to titles in a specific copyright range.
The search results page also includes the search filters so that results can be adjusted as needed.
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