Advanced Search Help:
- Author: type author’s surname and (optionally) forename in any order
- Title: type words that appear in the title (or the full title)
- Keywords: type words that may appear in either the author’s name, book title, book description
- Date from/to allow you to specify a range of publication dates
- If you are unsure about the spelling, use an asterisk, e.g., Samuel Jo*. (Asterisks act as 'wild cards'.) In this case, books would come up by Samuel Jones, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnston, etc.
- If you can't remember the author's name or the book title, just enter a few keywords e.g. English Civil War
- You can use AND, OR, double-quotes, brackets for greater control of the search results. E.g. typing into the title:
- Northumberland OR Durham will find books with either Northumberland or Durham in the title
- Northumberland AND Durham will find books with both Northumberland and Durham in the title
- "Durham Cathedral" will find books with the exact phrase Durham Cathedral in the title. (It would thus not find a book called The Cathedral of Durham.)
- (Cathedral) AND (Canterbury OR Durham) would find books with Cathedral plus either Canterbury or Durham in the title