Search The Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons

How the Search Works

• Searches are case-insensitive. CPR and cpr are the same.

• For a single word search, type the word in the appropriate field and click/select the "Start Search" button.

• For a multiple word search, type the words in the appropriate field(s) and click/select the "Start Search" button. The default search mode is "AND". If an "OR" search is desired, select ANY of these words (OR).

• Phrase search is supported. Put your search terms in double quotes. For example, a search for "social justice" (with the double quotes) will return records containing the two words in that exact order only.

• Right truncation is possible. The truncation symbol is *. For example, "victor*" will find "victor", "vitory", "victoria", "victorian", etc. Truncation can be used for both single and multiple word searches.

• Most of the common words, such as articles, prepositions, numbers, are not searched. Here is the list of all the stopwords

• Punctuations, such as the apostrophe, should not be included. For example, use "prisoners dilemma" instead of "prisoner's dilemma". When in doubt, always try truncation.

• Search results are sorted alphabetically by author's last name.