Search in Domestic resources

ALSO APPLIES TO SEARCH IN ADDRESS BOOK OF CZECH LIBRARIES

• Edgar Allan Poe
  multi-word term search results prioritize search term equivalence to author names (in order name surname) and main publication titles.

• "Poe's Raven"
  search phrase between quotation marks, i. e. Poe's Raven

• Poe AND Raven
  search terms containing Poe as well as Raven

• Poe OR Raven
  search terms containing at least one of the words Poe or Raven

• Poe NOT Raven or Poe -Raven
  search terms containing Poe and not containing Raven

• poe AND (raven OR (life AND work))
  you can use parentheses (even nested) to make advanced queries
  searching is not case sensitive and ignores punctation and diacritics

• +Poe Raven
  search terms necessarily containing Poe and possibly containing Raven

• R*ven
  search terms with empty or random string of characters in place of * (you cannot use that in the beginning of the term)

• R?ven
  search terms begining with R and ending with ven with one character in place of ? (you cannot use that in the beginning of the term)

• Raven~ / Raven~0.8
  search terms similar to Raven (Haven, Ravel); degree of similarity is defined by setting value from 0 to 1 (default is 0.5)

• "Poe Raven"~3
  proximity search; search terms with at most three words between Poe and Raven (regardless of the order)

• Poe Raven^8 poetry^6
  preferential search where the word significanceis given by the value after ^ (a term without ^ has the lowest value)

• {Po TO Pr} / [2001 TO 2003]
  range search (terms begining with Po, Pp, Pq and Pr / numbers from 2001 to 2003)