An Advanced Search in Quest allows you to:

• Search keywords in more than one field.
  
• Search Publisher Name, Publication Year, Series, Keyword in Title, or other elements of a bibliographic record in the drop down menu.
  
• Limit your search by Language, Format, Location, and/or date range.

Performing an advanced search can be particularly useful when you want to locate materials on a specific subject by a particular author. In the example, below, you are doing a search for books written by Professor Peter Kreeft on C.S. Lewis. You are also telling Quest to locate books only in the O'Neill Library.

 

Other uses for Advanced Searching

Use the advanced search option when you need to:

• Limit the results to items in a specific language
  
• Locate material in a specific library such as O'Neill, Bapst, the Social Work library, etc.
  
• Specify a date range for the publication date of material
  
• Search for video recordings or DVDs on a specific subject.
  
• Search for audio recordings such as musical recordings or spoken word in various formats.
  
• Search for journals that are available in electronic form.
  
• Locate maps
  
• Locate material stored on microfilm or fiche
  
• Locate material in the archive or manuscripts

Tips for Advanced Searching:

• Fill in as many search boxes as you would like. Using more than one line will narrow the search. If you choose "Phrase" for Search As, you can type in the phrase computer programming and the system will understand that you want only records that have the word computer NEXT to the word programmin.
  
  
• Truncation: Use the ? character to find matches that contain portions of words. For example, gun? will retrieve gun, guns, gunners, gunnery, gunning, etc. In another example, ?ology will retrieve anthropology, archaeology, psychology, etc. The ? character may also be used to find variant spellings. For example, alumi?m will find both the American spelling, aluminum, and the British spelling, aluminium.
  
  
• Lower-case letters will find matches of capitalized words also. For example, computer will find matches for computer, Computer and COMPUTER.
  
  
• You may use the Boolean operators AND and OR in your search string. For example, you could type (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery to retrieve all records having heart or cardiac in them, together with the word surgery.