Use the WSU Library's Online Catalog to locate books, journals, and other materials:
Use the WSU Library's Online Catalog to locate books, journals, and other materials:
You can use the dropdown menu to the right of the search bar to specify which aspect of a book you would like to search for -- title, author, etc. Also, you can use the dropdown menu immediately below the search bar to specify what type of material you would like to search for -- DVD, government document, textbook, music score, etc.
Keyword anywhere: the first option in the dropdown menu to the right of the search bar. Enter a string of keywords in any order. This is the broadest type of search you can do in the online catalog:
Keyword anywhere (and, or, not): another option in the dropdown menu to the right of the search bar.
Connect your search terms with the word and for more precise searching -- you are telling the catalog to find everything relating to concept A and concept B. The same logic applies for the words or and not, except that you will be searching for A or B, or alternately A not B.
Enclosing phrases within quotation marks ("substance abuse") makes the computer look for those words right next to each other. Using the truncation symbol ( ? ) makes the computer search for variations in word endings. For example, adolescen? looks for adolescent, adolescents, and adolescence.
Title: the second option on the dropdown menu to the right of the search bar. Search for the exact title of the book:
Journal title: the third option on the dropdown menu to the right of the search bar. Search for the exact title of the journal:
To be clear, you are searching for the title of a journal, not the title of an article published in a journal. You can search for articles using the library's databases -- see the Find articles tab to the left.
Author: the fourth option on the dropdown menu to the right of the search bar. Search for author's last name first, followed by first name or first initial:
