Enter a keyword search

Guidelines

In the Command Line Search area, always precede the search term with an index label and punctuation (use a colon (:) for words or an equal sign (=) for phrases).
Access method index (am:)
- Each punctuation mark is treated as a word division. Thus, www.oclc.org is treated as three separate words: www, oclc, and org.
- Omit http: and https:.
- Include stopwords when searching the Access Method index (am:).
  
  Example: To search for URL www.poets.org in the Command Line, type am:poets.
Internet qualifier (mt:)
- Use the Internet qualifier to limit results to Internet resources only or to non- Internet resources only.
- The system indexes only records containing field 856 with second indicator value <blank>, 0, or 1 as Internet. All other records are considered Non-Internet.
- For a Command Line Search, enter mt:url to limit to Internet resources. To limit to non-Internet resources, enter not mt:url.
When WorldCat derived and keyword search results include words with diacritics, the records may be sorted out of sequence with words that do not have diacritics, whether you use the client or the browser interface.

The system ignores the following common words in a keyword search statement:

a
an
and
are
as
at
be

but
by
for
from
had
has
have

he
her
his
if
in
into
is

it
its
not
of
on
or
she

so
than
that
the
their
there
this

to
was
were
when
which
with
would

you

To use any of these words as search terms, enclose them in quotation marks.

Example: To search for the title And Then There Were None, which includes three stopwords, type ti:"and" then "there" "were" none.

The following table lists often used keyword indexes with labels and examples of word, phrase, and whole phrase searches:

Index	Label	Enter command line search	Enter guided serch (select index from list)
Corp/Conf Name	cn: (word)	cn:enron	enron
	cn= (phrase)	cn=enron corp	enron corp
	cnw= (whole phrase)	cnw=american journal of nursing company	american journal of nursing company
Name	au: (word)	au:palatini	palatini
Name	au= (phrase)	au=bowers jane palatini	bowers jane palatini
Personal Name	pn: (word)	pn:salinger	salinger
Personal Name	pnw= (whole phrase)	pnw=salinger, pierre	salinger, pierre
Publisher	pb: (word)	pb:thousand oaks	thousand oaks
Series	se: (word)	se:vgm opportunities	vgm opportunities
Series	sew= (whole phrase)	sew=gerontological care series no 453-458	gerontological care series no 453-458
Title	ti: (word)	ti:gerontological	gerontological
Title	ti= (phrase)	ti:gerontological nursing	gerontological nursing

Override the selected index by preceding the search term with another index label and punctuation (e.g., in the Search for box, enter ti=gerontological nursing to override another index that is selected in the adjacent list).
Search for an exact phrase in the selected word index by enclosing the words in quotation marks (e.g., in the Search for box, enter "gerontological nursing" with the Title (ti:) index selected).