Search Tips & Print/Send/Save
This section provides researchers with a number of tips for improving their HOLLIS searching. It also illustrates how the Print/Send/Save feature in HOLLIS works.
HOLLIS Search Tips
- Use a truncation symbol "?"
at the end of a word root to get more results ("?" is the truncation
sign in HOLLIS): Example: "postmodern?" This will ensure that
your results will include not only the keyword "postmodern," but also
"postmodernism," "postmodernist," etc.
- Put quotes ( " " ) around words to search
them as a phrase: a keyword search for "forest biodiversity" will
bring back better results than a search for forest biodiversity. This
is a good technique to narrow a search that has returned too many results.
- When you find a useful book in HOLLIS
click on any of the Subjects listed on the screen to find more books
on that topic. As soon as you click on one of these subject headings, HOLLIS
will perform a search and pull up all records that contain that subject
heading.
Print/Save/Send Options
- Users may print,
save, or email themselves selected HOLLIS records. From your Results
List, mark the records you want
by clicking the box next to each record. A "Select All" option is
also available just above the results list. When you have
selected all of the records you want, click
on the
Print/Save/Send box (see below).
Then, follow the instructions on the next page for each function.
You can also perform these functions for an individual HOLLIS
record (see below).
