By clicking on Advanced Search, next to the search box, you will open a pop-up Advanced Search box that allows you to make a more specific search.
An Advanced Search allows you to customize your search further:
Search for – Search scopes allow you to search within a specific category of materials (such as electronic resources only or physical items only). You can also limit your search results by specifying filters such as material type, language, and publishing date or publishing date range.
Any Field – This allows you to narrow the search to all search fields or a particular field (examples of fields to search include: author, title and subject).
Search type – For each search line, your search terms are compared against the search field:
is (exact) – Returns results that contain phrases that exactly match the phrases specified in the query. For example, a search with Author/Creator (field) is Maya Angelou, would return results which include Maya Angelou as the author
contains – Returns results that contain all words in the phrase, but the words may be in a different order and may not be as close together. For example, a search with Title (field) contains activism and art, may return results which include titles such as: Paul Robeson a life o activism and art; Tactical biopolitics: art, activism, and technoscience and The cinema of Oliver Stone: art, authorship and activism.
starts with – Returns results that contain words that start with the specified words. This type performs left-anchored title searches only.
Search box – words, phrases, and "operators" (AND, OR, and NOT) can be entered into the search boxes.
Operators – As with basic searches, use AND, OR, and NOT either when entering your search terms, or select these "operators" from the drop down menu. to combine term.
If your query includes operators that separate phrases in which one or both of the phrases contain multiple words, Primo will use parentheses to group the words in each multiple-word phrase. For example, Primo will convert the query screen printing OR silkscreen to (screen printing) OR silkscreen to distinguish it from the following query: screen (printing OR advertising).
Add a New Line – Advanced searches allow you to include a maximum of seven search criteria lines, which contain the following parameters: operator, field selector, search type, and search box.
Filters – Filters allow you to narrow your results to specific metadata (such as a material type or date range). In the search results, you can include and exclude facets to filter your results further.
Here is an example of an Advanced Search for all items containing reference to the artist Rebecca Belmore and the subject activism or the word reconciliation (in any field). Results will be further limited to online sources in English from the last five years.
