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Navigating the Search Bar on the Main Page
You can access the search bar from every page of the website and digital library. Expand the search bar by clicking on the Search link in the site header. There are two basic options to begin your search:
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By default, your search results will include all the texts that are available to you to access online — known as “Full View” — limited by the search terms that you apply. These titles are available for you to access because they are in the public domain or licensed as open access. Once you reach the search results page, you can also include texts that are restricted by copyright in your search results by specifying “All Items” under "Item Viewability.”
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Ways to search items in HathiTrust
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Search Using Keywords
Keyword search allows you to search for topics, quotes, names, places, or phrases in both the information Website and the Collection.
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Boolean Searching:
Use AND and OR (capitalized) between words to combine them with Boolean logic: (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery will find works about heart surgery or cardiac surgery.
When searching in Full Text & All Fields, use a minus (-) to remove words from the result, e.g., heart -cardiac will find items containing the word heart that do not include the word cardiac.The word NOT isn’t available as a Boolean search term.
Phrase Searching: Use quotes to search an exact phrase: e.g., "occult fiction"
Wildcards: Use * or ? to search for alternate forms of a word. Use * to represent several characters, and ? for a single character: e.g., optim* will find optimal, optimize or optimum; wom?n will find woman and women. Wildcard search is not available in Full Text & All Fields search.
If you would simply like to browse without entering a search term, you can enter * by itself.
Sorting Your Search Results
To sort your search results, please select one of the fields from the dropdown menu: for example, title, author, etc. If you search using “Full-Text & All Fields,” we don’t provide the sort capability because typically there are too many search results to make that feasible.
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Advanced Search
Using Advanced Search, you may select multiple fields for a combined search enabling more detailed searching. Your options include Full Text & All Fields, All Fields, and other specific fields indicating book information.
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