Introduction

Basic Search

Advanced Search Options

• Keyword search
  
• Call number search
• Browse search
• Search only electronic books
• Search only videos

Search Results

• Category analysis (coming soon)
• Copy status
• Cross reference
• Full details
• Printing, e-mailing or viewing
• View options

Navigation

• My account
• Acorn alerts
• Login/Logout

Search Tips

• Searching for Authors
• Searching for Titles
• Searching for Periodical Titles
• Searching for Subjects
• Precise phrase searching
• Substitution and truncation
• Operators
• Operator precedence
• Nesting
• Stopwords
• Standard entry tags
• Searching numbers in a list
• Special characters

Glossary

Help with Acorn

Advanced Search Options: Browse Search

BROWSE searches alphabetically arranged indexes of all of the authors, titles, subject headings and series in the Acorn database:

• results can be browsed forward or backward indefinitely
• enter terms in the exact order desired
• include hyphens in compound words or proper nouns, such as moby-dick or post-traumatic
• omit other punctuation