Communication: Books

Simple Search

• Single white box
• Look up resources by keyword, title, author, or subject
• Huge results list
• Many different types of resources; articles, books and more
• Best when you are NOT looking for particular types of sources, e.g. - popular, scholarly, primary sources, empirical studies, DVD, etc.
• Refine results by applying various facets on the left margin

Advanced search

• Use for complex searches. 
• Many more options
• Specify Articles books or more (big results list); Resources in the Library (small results list of mostly books); etc.
• Specify the material type - format (book, articles, journals, images, audio, video, scores, maps, dissertations, or government documents)
• Specify one or more fields - author, title, subject, ISBN
• Specify publication year, language,  book
• contains, starts with, exact phrase
• Multiple Keywords or Subjects (search for "african americans" OR blacks AND "academic achievement" AND child*)

Browse Search

• NOT for keyword searching
• Use for known item searches - e.g., titles, authors, subject headings

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WorldCat Discovery @UCSB is a way to find books and other materials located in libraries outside the UC System. 

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