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Build a query that answers your question

Fields, operators and the year range, and when each of them helps.

6 minChecked 31 Aug 2026English & Arabic

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Advanced search builds the query row by row and shows you the finished string before it runs, so a search you were taught is a search you can repeat.

Field codes, the year range and the limiters are this catalogue’s own vocabulary. They stay here: a door out to a vendor carries your terms as text and nothing else, and the screen says so before you click.

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Written by library staff against this portal, not adapted from a vendor’s manual. The date below is the date it was last checked, not the date it was written.

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Last updated
31 Aug 2026
Published
5 Aug 2026
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Searching well

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