Search Tips

General Search:

The bibliography is full text searchable using the search box on the “Bibliography Search” page, searching across all fields in the citations. The search box accepts single words or phrases. It also accepts a blank search field if filters are applied. By default, all of the items in the bibliography are displayed if no search is applied. You can refine your search by using the Sort by for Title, Relevance, and Year, and the Filters on the left side. Multiple filters can be set for each search.

Using Filters:

Next to the search box is the option to sort your results by title, year, and relevance. You can also use the filters on the left side.

Filter by Title Initial:

You can filter for specific titles by only using the first initial of the title.

Filter by Last Name Initial:

You can filter for specific titles by only using the first initial of the contributor's last name. This will pull up results for any authors with that last name initial, regardless if they are the first author or second author.

Filter by keywords:

You can filter for results using keywords.

Filter by Year of Publication:

The default list includes every year listed in the bibliography starting with the most recent publication date. The results for a given year appear in alphabetical order by title. The search cannot currently handle approximate dates (e.g. circa, question marks, hyphens, square brackets); therefore, two dates appear in all entries: the search date and the date from the citation. When only a date range is known for an item, the earliest date in the range is used for the search date. For example, an item with a date of [187-] will have a search date of 1870 or an item with a date range [1872-9] will have a search date of 1872.

Viewing Items:

To view an item, click on its title to go to its page. Clicking on an author’s name will generate a list all of the items authored by that individual in the database.

Each item page may include the following fields in addition to Title and Year for Search (the normalized 4-digit year used for the search and sort):