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Diacritics and special characters
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All searches result in a hit list showing only books found in the BCWT library.
When searching
for a title or a subject it is recommended to use only a
few significant words. It is usually not necessary to search for the entire
title or the complete subject heading (but it is, of course, possible).
It is
also recommended to avoid very common and insignificant words like
articles, prepositions, etc.
The system is not case sensitive, i.e. it makes no distinction between
upper case and lower case letters.
These search tips are valid for the regular LIBRIS Database, as well as
for the specialized databases and subject bibliographies. Additional
search tips may be found in the database info (on the search screen) for
each database.
Diacritics and special characters
When searching for diacritics (accents, circumflex, cedilla etc.) the
character can be entered with or without the diacritic.
chrétien can be entered as chrétien or chretien, Düsseldorf as düsseldorf
or dusseldorf
Swedish ĺ, ä and ö are, however, not treated as umlauts but as special
characters. German ä and ö are treated the same way. There are two
ways to search if these characters are missing on your keyboard:
mask the characters with a ? (question mark), e.g Sk?ne for
Skĺne.
Use the edit facility in your browser to copy the character.
ĺ ä ö
Special characters, like apostrophe, hyphen and slash are accepted in a
search statement (e.g. cad/cam). It is however recommended that they
are omitted in a search statement, i.e. search the words before and
after the special character as two separate words (e.g. cad cam).
French and Italian words with apostrophes are preferably searched as
one word: l'hôtel, l´etŕ. The same applies, of course, to names like
O'Neill and s´Hertogenbosch.
Note! When searching for personal names like D'Alembert, it is
recommended that only the most significant part of the name is entered,
i.e. alembert.
The "s" in English possessives can be omitted, e.g. Brown will retrieve
both Brown and Brown's
Advanced searches
The implicit operator between search entries is AND and the same is
usually the case within individual search entries. (In the case of
publication and library codes the implicit operator is OR). Except for the
title entry, it is however possible to change the operator within a search
entry (but not between them).
Permitted operators are the following:
AND - All search terms must occur
OR -
One or more of the search terms must occur
NOT -
One or more of the search terms must not occur
ADJ -
The search terms must occur adjacent to each other in a
specific order
ADJn -
The search terms must occur adjacent to each other with n
words in between (ADJ1, ADJ2 etc)
NEAR -
The search terms must occur adjacent to each other but in any
order
NEARn -
The search terms must occur adjacent to each other, but in any
order and with n words in between (NEAR1, NEAR2 etc)
WITH -
The search terms must occur in the same field
SAME -
The search terms must occur in the same sentence
XOR -
Exclusive OR, i.e. only one of the search terms can occur.
A phrase may also be surrounded by quotation marks, which will have the
same meaning as the proximity operator ADJ. This means that identical
responses should be returned by the search statements "social science"
and social ADJ science.
The operator NOT can also be used together with ADJ(n), NEAR(n),
SAME, and WITH in order to exclude words that occur together. Write
NOT ADJ, NOT NEAR etc.
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