Search in Domestic resources and Libraries directory

• searching is not case sensitive and ignores punctation and diacritics

• Edgar Allan Poe
  multi-word term search results prioritize search term equivalence to author names (in order name surname) and main publication titles

• "Poe's Raven"
  search phrase between quotation marks, i.e. Poe's Raven

• Poe AND Raven
  search terms containing Poe as well as Raven

• Poe OR Raven
  search terms containing at least one of the words Poe or Raven

• Poe NOT Raven or Poe -Raven
  search terms containing Poe and not containing Raven

• poe AND (raven OR (life AND work))
  you can use parentheses (even nested) to make advanced queries

• +Poe Raven
  search terms necessarily containing Poe and possibly containing Raven

• R*ven
  search terms with empty or random string of characters in place of * (you cannot use that in the beginning of the term)

• R?ven
  search terms begining with R and ending with ven with one character in place of ? (you cannot use that in the beginning of the term)

• Raven~ / Raven~0.8
  search terms similar to Raven (Haven, Ravel); degree of similarity is defined by setting value from 0 to 1 (default is 0.5)

• "Poe Raven"~3
  proximity search; search terms with at most three words between Poe and Raven (regardless of the order)

• Poe Raven^8 poetry^6
  preferential search where the word significanceis given by the value after ^ (a term without ^ has the lowest value)

• {Po TO Pr} / [2001 TO 2003]
  range search (terms begining with Po, Pp, Pq and Pr / numbers from 2001 to 2003)

• If the search box is empty, by clicking on Find button, the list of all entries within the Domestic resources will be shown.

Advanced search in Domestic resources and Libraries directory

A form for advanced search allows users to enter a complex and complicated queries. For each word it is possible to specify the category of search.

Search boxes

User chooses the category(such as author or title) which will be searched from the drop-down list (with pre-set search In All Fields).

It is possible to Add search box and to enter additional search terms.

Logical operators from a drop-down menu Match can be applied on any search box in the group:

• ALL Terms - i.e. logical operator AND
• Any Terms - i.e. logical operator OR
• No term - i.e. logical operator NOT

Search group

Add search group allows the user to add additional search boxes, on which another logical operator can be applied.

Therefore, for example records in which occur all terms from the first group while only selected terms from another group can be searched, just as if you were entering an expression with prentheses.

Logical operator can be applied also on search groups. There are following options in the dropdown menu Match:

• All groups - i.e. logical operator AND
• Any groups - i.e. logical operator OR

More options

Searching can be limited by language, country of publication, document type and an interval of years of publication. Settings for the number of results per page is also available.

To clear the form, click on the Clear.