Understanding keyword & phrase searching
When you are placing requests on the MnLINK Gateway it is important to understand some of the basics of our searches.
If you are using the Basic search it is a Keyword search. It will search for your term(s) anywhere in the bibliographic records of your chosen Search Profile. Let's say you want to find the title Beauty and the Beast. It often works best to pick out 2 or 3 main words when using the Basic Search. Keyword searching tends to work best when you drop the less important words like conjunctions and articles. In this case it would be best to search for the 2 words Beauty Beast. If you are sure of a title phrase you can search for that by putting quotation marks around your search terms and the MnLINK Gateway will only look for those words in sequence. In this situation you would enter the terms like this, "Beauty and the Beast". Even though I am using them here, upper and lower case characters do not make a difference in searching.