symbol.Our software is Vufind, a discovery tool which allows, with a single search, the simultaneous exploration of different databases to access thousands of books, articles, archive documents, photographs, etc.
Once we have entered our search terms in the search box, a list of all the documents matching these terms will be shown.
However, in addition to the single search, we can define the searches depending on the Type of material (book, article, magazine, archive, etc.), the in-house Collections (HSS Catalogue, MDT Repositories, Photographic Library Archives) or those integrated from other repositories (Liburuklik, Gredos, Dialnet, etc.), or the Format (Digitised or Non-Digitised).
And, of course, there is also the option of using the advanced search function, which can be found by clicking on the symbol.
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To save the searches carried out while the browser is open. If we want to use those searches at other times, we need to identify ourselves to save them.
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To perform a single character wildcard search use the ? symbol.
For example, to search for "woman" or "women" you can use the search:
wom?n
To perform a multiple character, 0 or more, wildcard search use the * symbol.
For example, to search for test, tests or tester, you can use the search:
test*
You can also use the wildcard searches in the middle of a term.
te*t
Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.
Use the tilde ~ symbol at the end of a Single word Term. For example, to search for variant spellings of "Tchaikovsky," use the fuzzy search:
Tchaikovsky~
An additional parameter can specify the required similarity. The value is between 0 and 1, with a value closer to 1 only terms with a higher similarity will be matched. For example:
Tchaikovsky~0.8
The default that is used if the parameter is not given is 0.5.
Use the tilde ~ symbol at the end of a Multiple word Term. For example, to search for economics and keynes that are within 10 words apart:
"economics Keynes"~10
To perform a range search you can use the { } characters. For example to search for a term that starts with either A, B, or C:
{A TO C}
The same can be done with numeric fields such as the Year:
[2002 TO 2003]
To apply more value to a term, you can use the ^ character. For example, you can try the following search:
economics Keynes^5
Which will give more value to the term "Keynes"
Boolean operators allow terms to be combined with logic operators. The following operators are allowed: AND, +, OR, NOT and -.
Note: Boolean operators must be ALL CAPS
The AND operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the AND operator is used. The AND operator matches records where both terms exist anywhere in the field of a record.
To search for records that contain "economics" and "Keynes" use the query:
economics Keynes
or
economics AND Keynes
The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in the field of a record.
To search for records that must contain "economics" and may contain "Keynes" use the query:
+economics Keynes
The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching record if either of the terms exist in a record.
To search for documents that contain either "economics Keynes" or just "Keynes" use the query:
"economics Keynes" OR Keynes
The NOT operator excludes records that contain the term after NOT.
To search for documents that contain "economics" but not "Keynes" use the query:
economics NOT Keynes
Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the following search will return no results:
NOT economics
The - or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol.
To search for documents that contain "economics" but not "Keynes" use the query:
economics -Keynes