- Full Record - A full-record search will find items in the bibliographic record.
- Full Text - A full-text search will find items in both the bibliographic record and the full text.
- Genre - A genre search will find items that belong to the category you type in as your search. For instance, type in "Reports" and select Genre from the pulldown menu to find all reports within the collection.
- Boolean search - A search for "dog" or "cat" will find items containing "dog", or documents containing "cat", whereas a search for "dog" and "cat" will find items containing both "dog" and "cat." Mixed Boolean searches such as "Jane and Doe or John" or "Jane or Doe and John" are not supported.
- Truncation - Supports right-truncated queries. The query term "car*" finds all documents containing the word "car", "cars", or "carpet", or any other word that starts with the prefix "car."
- Phrase searching - For phrase searching, use double quotes. For example, "with liberty and justice for all".
- Date searching - Enter a four digit year. Supports wildcards e.g. 195* for the 1950s.
