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LEAGLE SEARCH

We've upgraded our search to make it easier for you to discover and request library resources. Primo provides simple, one-stop searching for books, journals, articles, digital media, course reserves, and more.

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Check out Primo's own search tips here!

TRUNCATION

Truncation and wildcards are used to search for any spelling of a word.

Truncation: use an asterisk (*) to replace part of a word:

librar* = library, libraries, librarian

*plane = airplane, aeroplane, warplane

Wildcards: use a question mark (?) to substitute one letter within a word:

analy?e = analyse, analyze

wom?n = woman, women

FIELDS

Use the field options in LEAGLE Advanced Search to streamline your results.

Fiction items only:

Select the Subject field and search fiction.

Refine by author:

Use the Author field to search for items by a particular author. 

SYNONYMS

If your keywords aren't yielding suitable results, consider different synonyms.

teenager:

tween, adolescent, youth, juvenile

benefit:

advantage, influence, support, asset

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Boolean operators can broaden or narrow your results. 

Use AND to retrieve results that contain both search terms:

police AND federal

Use OR to retrieve results that contain any or all of your search terms:

politics OR government

Using NOT to exclude irrelevant results:

canine NOT dental

QUOTATION MARKS

Quotation marks can be used to retrieve more specific results.

Consider searching for a specific phrase:

"global warming"
"state power"
"social media"

Consider searching for a specific spelling of a word:

"colour" instead of "color"
"artefact" instead of "artifact"
"programme" instead of "program"

PARENTHESES

Parentheses combine keywords and control the order of boolean operators.

Create more complex and focussed search queries:

(tertiary AND university) AND education

(heart OR lung) AND bypass

(Facebook NOT Twitter) AND social media

Searching for a Phrase

To search for an exact phrase, type quotation marks around the phrase. You can combine both words and phrases in your search.