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The Catalog contains information about all Tufts Libraries' collections, including books, videos, software, journal titles, websites, course reserves, DVDs and CDs. You may search in a variety of ways depending upon how much information you have about the item.
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Type as many or as few of the words in the title as you know:  
Example: Breakfast at Tiffanys
Tip: Omit beginning articles: a, an, the, le, la, der, die, etc.
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Enter a periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper) title in the journal title search box.
Example: Time
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Search for works by a particular author, composer, editor, translator, etc. Enter the author's last name first, followed by the author's first name or as much of the first name as you know.
Tip: If you do not get any results with a full name, leave off the first name or use just one initial.
Example: Shakespeare W
Tip: Performers, actors, organizations, and sometimes even distribution companies can be entered in the author search box.
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Use to limit the search result. Type the last name (or last name followed by first name) in the author field and title (or partial title) in the title field.
| Example: | Author Shakespeare |
| Title Juliet |
Tip: Use this search when you know the last name of the author and partial information about the title.
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If you know the call number of an item, type it in call number search box.
Tip: Use the first part of the call number to browse items of the same subject.
| Example: | Type WS to retrieve all items related to pediatrics. |
| Type WS 17 to retrieve an atlas of pediatrics. |
| Type WS 17 S525a 2000 to retrieve Atlas of pediatric clinical diagnosis |
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Every book or periodical published is assigned an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). If you know the ISBN or ISSN, enter the number in the ISBN/ISSN search box.
Tip: Punctuation, hyphen, space do not matter.
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Type the word(s) that you think most pertinent to the items/topics you wish to find. Various techniques in keyword searching:
The Catalog automatically inserts AND between terms. To force the Catalog to search your words as a phrase, surround the phrase with quotation marks, such as "fluid mechanics."
Boolean Operators:
You can also use the Boolean operators (AND, OR, AND NOT, BEFORE, NEAR, and AFTER) to combine search terms.
AND: Use AND to make your search more precise.
Example: Capote AND blood will find In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote.
Tip: AND will narrow the search.
OR: Use OR to broaden the search.
Example: type car or automobile to retrieve items that contains either "car" or "automobile." |
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You can combine various fields (title, author, subject, notes) in one search, making your search results more precise. To find DVDs about World War II in French, type:
World War II
Language = French
Material Type = DVD
Tip: For author keyword searches, do not type the initial of the first name. Type last name only or last and first name.
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Every item in the Catalog is assigned one or more subjects that tells what the item is about. Use the subject search if you are interested in a certain topic (called subject headings in the Catalog) and want to find items related to the topic.
Tip: No results from a subject search? Try a keyword search instead. You may get no result from subject searches if you do not know the exact word or phrased used by the Library of Congress or National Library of Medicine, the organizations that assign subject headings.
Tip: When you find a very relevant item, click its subject heading to see other items with the same subject headings.
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MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) are assigned by the National Library of Medicine. The search technique for MeSH works the same as the Library of Congress Subject Heading, explained above.
Tip: If you get no results, try a keyword search.
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Use to do a keyword search of all Tufts theses & dissertations. You may qualify the search to just the author, title, subject, or note fields. You may combine search terms with Boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT, etc.
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Use to do a keyword search of all electronic resources. You may search all electronic resources or limit your search to books, journals, databases, Tufts theses & dissertations, CD-ROMs, or U.S. federal publications.
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