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Any-phrase and exact-phrase searches
An any-phrase search is helpful when you are looking for variations on a basic root-word. For example, if you want to find all citations with references to poets, poetry, poetic forms, and poems, you may do an any-phrase search for "poe." Any-phrase searching is also useful when you wish to find all possible results for multiple search terms, rather than just those results where the terms appear exactly as you entered them. For example, if you are looking for critical works on Ashbery by either Helen Vendler, David Shapiro or David Lehman, you may enter "Vendler Shapiro Lehman" in the author field of the advanced search page, and the search engine will find all the entries in which one or more of those names appears in that field.
An exact-phrase search is helpful when you know exactly what you are looking for and do not wish to pull extraneous results. For example, to find all information relating to Ashbery's poem "At North Farm," you should do an exact-phrase search for that title in order to avoid pulling all the entries that include either "at," or "north," or "farm."
If you are doing an exact-phrase search by first and last name in the author, author/editor, or translator fields, you must enter the name exactly as it appears in the entry: last name, first name (comma included), for example, "Ashbery, John." An alternative would be simply an any-phrase or exact-phrase search for "Ashbery." Names in foreign languages, such as Hungarian or Japanese, that traditionally put the family name before the given name (i.e., Gergely Ágnes) will still include a comma between the two to facilitate searching.
Although other popular search engines such as Google use quotation marks to perform exact-phrase searches, the search engine for this catalogue does not. Normally you should not use quotation marks in your searches, because you will only pull citations in which the search phrase is also enclosed in quotation marks (for example, the poem title 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'). If you do use quotation marks as part of your search terms, note that this catalogue uses single rather than double quotation marks.
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