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

Cross Reference

The list of available cross references displays when you select the Cross Reference navigation button. Select a topic from the list of linked topics to display a new Search Results page.

The topics available on this page are identical to those displayed under Try These Too.

Other links to cross reference information are available from the Full Details view of an item record:

• Click on More By This Author to access author cross references.
• Click on More Like This to access subject cross references.
• coming soon Click on a category under You Found Titles in Categories to access other titles in the same category or categories. If the list is long, click on More to view the entire list.