Search tips and help
With the search box on this website you can:
- search the library's collection*
- find information on the library website
Searching the collection works with our search engine Discover. Below is a list of search tips and search options that you can use in Discover.
On this website you can find information about library services, facilities and our organisation. Choose the option "Info about services".
* see box on the right
Search tips & help Discover
Boolean versus Google
Discover supports both intuitive Google-like queries and formal boolean queries. It is not advised to mix these two method
Boolean and Google-like search | |||
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Boolean | AND | OR | NOT |
+ | not available | - | |
Examples | water management rain AND water OR clouds +rain +water -sunny | ||
Change precedence by using parentheses, e.g.:
(word1 OR word2) AND world3
By default, typing in word1 word2 word3 translates to:
word1 AND word2 AND word3
Truncation / wildcards
Use an asterisk (*) to truncate right. | |
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Example: | hydrolog* |
Phrase Search
Use "quotes" for phrase search | |
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Example: | "morphology of high purity" |
Special characters
Discover does not yet support automatic retrieval of special characters, for example the German umlaut. So, if necessary, also use diacriticals to retrieve more complete results. | |
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Examples: | author=röbke OR author=robke übersicht OR ubersicht |
Field Search
Field label | Example | Description |
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author= | author=Smith | author name |
title= | title="fire detection" | document title |
year= | year=2011 | publication year |
abstract= | abstract=fire-extinguishing | word(s) in abstract or summary |
toc= | toc=impact-recovery | word(s) in table of content |
topic= | topic=microstructure | keyword or thesaurus terms |
type= | type=article | document type |
publisher= | publisher=Springer | publisher |
Catalogue only: | ||
sysno= | sysno=000567894 | library system number |
class= | class=ATH | classification code |
Examples:
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