Search Tips
Enter as many relevant words as you can. The more words you enter, the more records you will retrieve, but the records you want will more likely be found at the beginning of the list of search results. For example, to find a book by Don Miller about marketing, enter 'miller don marketing'. You will retrieve a longer list than if you had just entered 'miller', but the records shown first will be those that contain all three words. This system of retrieval is called relevance ranking and it is used by many web search engines.
Capitalisation, word order and punctuation are not significant. Some common words are listed as stopwords and will automatically be excluded from your search (the, and, it, are etc.)
You can search on a partial word instead of a full word. The wildcard (an asterisk *) is used in place of letters, numbers or symbols. It can be used to replace characters at the beginning or end of a word.
lib* retrieves library, liberal, libel
*land retrieves overland, bland, Holland
Avoid using very common words, or if you do use them, combine them with other search words to narrow your search. For example, a search on management will retrieve many titles but you will have to look through the whole list to pick the ones you want, while a search on hospitality management may retrieve even more titles, but it will place the most relevant titles at the top of the list.
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Last updated 8 August, 2007