When to use advanced search

Use advanced search when you need to:

• combine two or more specific fields
• search by publisher or place of publication
• combine two or more values of a limit
  • items in either the Music Library or Archive of Recorded Sound
  • Journals and Newspapers published in Spain
• do complex Boolean logic

In many cases, a simple search will be effective to find a title + author:

• All fields: history man bradbury

The correct item will typically be in the first 2-3 results.

Example

Find everything by or about Picasso in the Art Library.

• Match ANY
  • Title: picasso
  • Author: picasso
  • Subject: picasso
• Limit to Library: Art & Architecture

The results will not include ~300 works that mention Picasso in a content note or review, or other minor mention. These additional items would be retrieved in a simple search, but would be ranked at the end of the results.

Boolean

You can create complex Boolean logic using AND, OR, and NOT (all in upper-case) and parentheses for nesting.

What is searched in each field

• All fields
  • All metadata, except call numbers
• Title
  • main title
  • uniform title
  • title variant (including former title)
  • related title
  • series title (also searchable in a separate field)
• Author
  • main author
  • contributors (co-authors, advisors, illustrators, etc.)
  • series author
• Subject
  • database topic (domain headings assigned only to databases)
  • subject headings, including topic, region, era, and genre
  • topic keywords from SDR-deposited items
• Series
  • series title
• Place, publisher, year
  • country of publication (e.g. Spain)
  • location (e.g. Valencia)
  • publisher
  • publication date (single year; does not allow date ranges)
• ISBN/ISSN
  • isbn
  • issn
  • oclc
  • barcode
  • call number
    • in advanced search, call number must be searched in quotation marks, e.g. "JQ1879 .A15 D385"