• Search Tips
• Sample Searches
• Advanced Keyword Searching
• Navigation Tips

Search Tips

• Search by Subject, Author and Title. These methods provide related cross-references that are not offered in the Keyword search.

• Use Keyword searches when you don't know the exact title or subject heading of an item and when you need to locate numbers and dates within a title or series.

• Use the expander (*) in a Keyword search to retrieve all forms of a root word. Example: trust* will retrieve: trust, trusts, trustee, trusted and trusting.

• Click an item in your search results page to see the full bibliographic record.

• Limit Search by known criteria like publisher, date, language, material type (audiocassette, book ,etc.) prior to running your query. This will reduce the number of records your search will return.

  • Limit by multiple fields:
    For individual limits with multiple values, hold the control key (Windows) or the command key (Mac) to select more than one. The multiple values are assumed to be "or"s, for example "material type books or serials."

  • Limit by location:
    Based on the location listed on the bibliographic records.
    • Example: A Keyword search for american maritime which is limited to General Collection will retrieve a different set of results than if you limited the location to Concourse@Jenkins.

Sample Searches

• Author
  Use either the Author's Name (last name first) or the Name of an Organization or Governmental Body.
  • Tribe
  • Pennsylvania Bar Institute
  • United States Congress

• Call Number
  Type the call number from our collection.
  • KF 1614
  • KFP 155.8 B8
  • On Order

• ISBN/ISSN
  Type as much of the ISBN or ISSN number as you wish.
  • 0017-811X
  • 0123228425

• Keyword
  You may use the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT as well as truncations (*, ?) and proximities (NEAR, BEFORE). Learn more about Advanced Keyword Searching.
  • Employment AND Discrimination
  • United States OR America
  • wom?n
  • water AND NOT (CIS)
  • Water WITHIN 5 quality
  • Blackstone* Near Commentar*
  • Work* Compensation
  • copyright and (electronic resource)
  • patent and audio*

• Title
  Type as much or as little of the Title or Series as you wish.
  • adams l.j
  • Treaty doc 106-35
  • Hornbook series
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

• Subject
  Subject headings identify materials about a topic, person, or organization. Subject terms may also indicate form of materials.
  • Aged - Government policy
  • Discrimination
  • Instructions to juries

Advanced Keyword Searching

Navigation Tips

• Scroll down to view the entire bibliographic record.

• Click the underlined Subject of a record to retrieve similar items with the same subject.

• Click the link under the Location heading in the bibliographic record to view a map that shows where the item is located in Jenkins.

• Click the "Link to: Online version," link in a bibliographic record to view the full text of the document.