Article (Summon) Search Options
Special Search Characters
double quote
"scientific american"
phrase search
question mark
wom?n
replaces any single character
asterisk
politic*
replaces any number of characters -- cannot be used at start of word
Boolean Searching
Boolean operators must be typed in UPPERCASE.
AND
teens AND smoking
Finds items that contain both terms. Useful when searching for two concepts together.
OR
teen OR adolescent
Finds items that contain either term. Useful when searching synonyms.
NOT
mercury NOT planet
Finds items that contain the first term, but not the second term. Useful when excluding one sense of a term, or one aspect of a subject.
parentheses
(cats OR dogs) AND food
Groups terms together.
Fielded searching
Searches can be targetted to any of these fields:
Title,
SubjectTerms,
Author,
Publisher,
PublicationTitle,
Volume,
Issue,
Language,
Notes,
ISBN,
ISSN,
DOI,
DEWEY
field:(query)
Author:(Ondaatje)
Finds items that contain search terms in specified field.
Search examples
You can combine search strategies to build a search for your topic:
(child* OR adolescen* or teen*) AND "body image" AND Language:(English)
You can view the contents of a journal issue:
PublicationTitle:(Nature) AND Volume:(477) AND Issue:(7366)