Search Tips

• Do not use "A", "An", or "The" (or definite articles in any language) at the beginning of an author or title or journal title search. For example
  • To search for the author The Ford Motor Company, enter ford motor company.
  • To search for the title The Old Man and The Sea, enter old man and the sea.
  • To search for the journal title The New York Times, enter new york times
• Punctuation and capitalization are not necessary when entering search terms. Omit upper case letters, commas, hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, periods, etc.
• Do not use limits in a subject or author or title search.
• Truncation:

  Search for variations of a keyword by entering part of the word followed by a question mark.
  Author, title, journal title and subject searches are automatically truncated. For example,

  • The keyword search child?    finds children, childhood, etc.
  • The keyword search lumber?    finds lumbering, lumbers, lumberwoods, etc.
  • The title search time    finds all titles beginning time, timely, times, etc.

• To search for phrases and hyphenated terms in keyword searches put quotation marks around the phrase or words. For example,
  • To find the keyword phrase internet security enter "internet security"
  • To find the hyphenated keyword will-o'-the-wisp enter "will-o'-the-wisp"

• Go to Guide to PILOT, Table of Contents

Send comments and suggestions to Dick Swain, rswain@wcupa.edu

These pages last updated on 3 January 2001