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What is GeoRef?
How do I connect to GeoRef?
How do I search GeoRef?
How do Boolean Operators Work?
Using AND &
NEAR
Using
OR
Using
( )
Using
NOT
Using
*
Using ?
How do I eliminate GSA, AAPG and AGU Abstracts
from my search?
What is a Record and a Field?
What do the tabs at the top of the Search Results Do?
How do I find results in the Library?
What does the IULINK button do?
Does the IULINK button always work?
What if the IUB Libraries do not own an item?
What if no IU Library owns an item?
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How do
Boolean Operators Work?
Using *
* (the asterisk symbol) is used to
search for records
that contain any form of a word. It can be used at the end or within a
term and can take the place of one or more letters.
Sample Searches:
Indiana near Fossil*
Indiana near Glaci*
When the words Fossil* and Glaci* are
searched, records with all forms of these words will be displayed.
- Fossil, Fossils, Fossiliferous, Fossilize,
Fossilization
- Glacier, Glaciers, Glacial, Glaciation, Glaciated
Indiana near Pal*eontology
- Finds records with the words Paleontology or Palaeontology.
Indiana near Ground*water
- Finds records with the words Groundwater or Ground-water or Ground
Water.
Indiana near Coal*Bed
- Finds records with the words Coalbed or Coal-bed or Coal Bed.
Try a search using * in a GeoRef search.
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