| Library Catalogue |
Search the library's holdings for books, e-books and other electronic resources, images, journals and other periodicals, plus more:
Additional search options: Advanced keyword search | Author/Title search
Interactive step-by-step guides to using the library catalogue
Library News - February 2010
Oxford journals online collection upgraded. Now access over 200 journals in fulltext in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, from the first to the current issue.
New resource: Who's Who and Who Was Who - over 100,000 biographies of the noteworthy and influential dating back to 1898.
IT Support
Customer Services manages staffed Service Desks on the Brynmor Jones Library, ground floor, Hull Campus to provide support for users of University systems. Amongst many other things user guides, booklets and support documentation are available, as well as a range of consumables from the reception desk. Details of the wide range of support provided by Customer Services can be found on their website http://www.hull.ac.uk/help |
| Search Tips | |
| Adjacency | Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. Example : world health organization |
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| Wildcards |
Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. '*' for 1-5 characters, '**' for open-ended truncation, '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word. Examples : environment* polic*, comput**, wom?n |
| Boolean Operators |
Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Example : stocks and bonds Example : (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation) |
| Proximity Operators |
Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Example : california near university |
| Field limits | A field limit causes the system to search only the specified field for the specified word(s). |
| Grouping | Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query. |
