MELVYL: The Web-based Search Page

Scope

• MELVYL's Web-based search interface is relatively straight-forward to use and provides access to the same range of OPACs and other databases.

Using MELVYL's CAT & PE databases.

• Just use the pull-down menu to choose to choose:
  • MELVYL Online - This is the materials (largely books) catalog (CAT), which includes: "books, archives, audio-visuals, computer files, videorecordings, dissertations, government documents, maps, music scores, and recordings, etc."
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• Then select the type of search that you want to do:
  • Title search
    • Use this to search for words anywhere in title or the exact beginning of title. or's name to make the search more precise.
  • Author search
    • Use this to search for works by a the name of a person or an organization.
  • Subject search
    • You need to know the Library of Congress Subject headings to search by Subject.
  • Power search
    • Power search enables you to combine multiple concepts and mutiple types of searching by
      • sing AND, OR or NOT in a p also allows you to do search types other than the basic

  Title, Author and Subject index. You can search by series, music publishers, geographic classification code, ISBN, and

  more than 20 other indexes. Power Search also gives you more control of how you limit your searches; you may apply

  several limits to a search or you can limit to more than one location or more than one format and language.

Search Selection Screen

URL

• http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu

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