OneSearch and individual database have powerful features to help you find results.
Break your search into keywords or key phrases, and use Advanced Search to specify where your terms should be searched (e.g. title, abstract, subject, full text).
Use limiters to narrow your results. Suggested limiters include:
Click on the Catalog tab to search for books within Fordham University Libraries.
Broad search: Use the "Words or Phrase" option to search for words appearing anywhere in the Catalog (does not search full text of books).
Narrower search: Use "Subject" option to find books about specific authors or topics.
Sample subject terms:
Identifying Keywords
This 1 minute video illustrates how to identify best keywords for your search.
A transcript of the video is available.
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