To find records containing particular words or phrases, use 'Search for'. Note that terms and operators can be entered in either upper or lower case The operators AND, OR and NOT can (optionally) be used to define complex queries. For example, youth AND adolescents will list all records containing both of these terms, while youth NOT adolescents will list all records containing youth except those also containing adolescents. youth OR adolescents will list records containing either term.
The Search truncation symbol (*) is used as follows: fish* will list all records containing words starting with the root fish, e.g. fishermen, fishing, fishmonger, etc.
Use 'Browse for' to display a selectable alphabetically-ordered list of titles, authors or subjects. To find titles in the Titles Index, type the first few words of a title. To locate records by subject, browse in the Thesaurus by entering a heading such as Music, Influence of or Children--Nutrition. To browse in the Author Index, enter a name in any of the following formats: David Dockery or Dockery, David or Dockery.
Searching help available: PowerPoint tutorials showing sample searches in the SBPI database can be found at here:
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