Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature: Search Fields

You can execute a search using a combination of the following search fields:

• All Keyword
• Title Keyword
• Subject
• Author/Reviewer
• Publication Details
• Journal
• Publication Year

You can also use the Search Options to refine your search further.

All Keyword

From the Search page, you can use the All Keyword field to search for any word or phrase contained within the bibliography. To enter terms into the search box:

• browse a list of keywords from which you can select terms to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type your search terms directly into the Keyword search box. Search terms may consist of either single words or phrases.

For example:

When searching in the Keyword field, you can use truncation to retrieve records containing variations of a term. If you choose to search for more than one term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Title Keyword

From the Search page, you can use the Title Keyword field to search for any word or phrase contained in the title of a record. To enter items into the search box:

• browse a list of title keywords from which you can select terms to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type your search terms directly into the Title Keyword search box. Search terms may consist of either single words or phrases.

For example:

When searching in the Title Keyword field, you can use truncation to retrieve records containing variations of a term. If you choose to search for more than one term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Subject

From the Search page, you can use the Subject field to search for any word or phrase contained in the subject information assigned to each record. To enter items into the search box:

• browse a list of phrases from which you can select terms to transfer back to the search box. Note: to make the Subject browse easier to navigate, every variation of every subject term is listed in the browse index;

  or

• type your search terms directly into the Subject search box. Search terms may consist of either single words or phrases.

For example:

When searching in the Subject field, you can use truncation to retrieve records containing variations of a term. If you choose to search for more than one term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Author/Reviewer

From the Search page, you can limit a search to records of a particular author, reviewer or contributor. To enter terms in the Author/Reviewer search box:

• browse a list of authors and reviewers from which you can select items to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type your author names directly into the Author/Reviewer search box.

For example:

When searching in the Author/Reviewer field, you can use truncation to retrieve records of authors with common or similar names. If you choose to search for more than one author, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Publication Details

From the Search page, you can search on the publication details for any record. To enter terms in the Publication Details search box:

• browse a list of keywords contained within the publication details of each record from which you can select terms to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type the location keywords directly into the Publication Details search box.

For example:

When searching in the Publication Details field, you can use truncation to retrieve records containing variations of a term. If you choose to search for more than one location term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Journal

From the Search page, you can search on the journal title in which any article was published. To enter terms in the Journal search box:

• browse a list of journal titles from which you can select items to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type the journal keywords directly into the Journal search box.

For example:

When searching in the Journal field, you can use truncation to retrieve records containing variations of a term. If you choose to search for more than one location term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Publication Year

You can limit a search to works published during a specific year or a range of years. The default values appearing in the search boxes represent the earliest and most recent years of publication.

The Publication Year field can be searched in several different ways:

• To search on a range of years, enter the relevant values into the from and to search boxes.

  For example:

• To search on one particular year, enter the same value into both of the search boxes.

  For example:

• To search on a given year and all subsequent years, enter the first date in the range into the From search box.

  For example:

• To search on a given year and all preceding years, enter the later date in the range into the to search box.

  For example:

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