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ODIN User Guide: Keyword Search

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If you don't know where the concepts you are looking for might appear, search for them as keywords. A keyword search will find words in the title, subject, notes, and series. The author is not searched in a keyword search.

How to Search

  • Select the Keyword radio button from the basic search screen
    or select Keyword from the drop-down menu on the advanced search screen.
  • Enter one or more words that descibe the item you are looking for. Your search will find all items that have these keywords.
  • Do not include these words: by, for, in, of, on, to, the.
  • Use truncation and wild cards for spelling variations.
  • Use boolean operators AND, OR, NOT to combine words.
  • You can use upper or lower case.

Examples

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To search for:  
crusoe and defoe anything about Daniel Defoe and his book Robinson Crusoe
jamaica and kincaid and coming and org Jamaica Kincaid's short story Coming of Org, as part of a collection of stories

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