Help Topics

Overview

• What's included in Pathfinder?
• Searching: basic concepts
• Changes in terminology
• Logging on
• Question of the Week
• Frequently Asked Questions

 Search tips

• Title keyword(s)
• Title begins with...
• Journal Title keyword(s)
• Journal Title begins with...
• Author (last name first)
• Author-Organization keyword(s)
• Subject keyword(s)
• Notes/Table of Contents keyword(s)
• Call Number begins with...

 Limits

• Setting limits
• Limiting by language

 Other search features

• Browsing
• Truncation & plurals
• Combining keywords
• Keyword order & closeness (proximity)
• Previous searches
• Stop words

 Displaying results

• Brief display
• Full display
• Availability display
• Links to online documents
• Next, Previous, Back buttons

 Keeping results

• Saving
• Printing & e-mailing