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Searching Tips
Stick to keywords
Stick to keywords
The library catalog is not like Google; it will not process questions or phrases like "How to treat pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes." Stick to basic keywords such as "type 2 diabetes" or "pediatric patients." If you want to use multiple keywords at once, do an Advanced Search.
Change up your keywords
Change up your keywords
If a certain keyword is not yielding very many results, try a different but similar keyword. For example, "pediatric patient" could be replaced with "children".
Check spelling
Check spelling
If you make a spelling error, the catalog won't guess what you meant and give you results anyway; keywords must be spelled correctly or else you will not receive any results.
Basic Search
Basic Search
Detailed information and/or links to all of the library's print books, ebooks, articles, journals, games, FLIX, etc. can be found on our online catalog. This catalog can be accessed from the library's home page at www.fhu.edu/library.
Type your keyword, book or article title, author, etc. into the Search the Libraries box and click Search.
Your search results will include various resources such as articles, ebooks, print books, videos, etc. Click on the title of any listed result for more information on that particular resource.
As you can see above, our inital search resulted in over 1,800,000 results.
Since a lot of those results are probably not going to be helpful to you in your research, you can narrow down your result list using the Search Tools bar to the left of the page. By selecting specific options in this bar, your result list will become more specific to your needs.
Notice that when it comes to books, 1.5K out of 4.9K in the search results are eBooks. These are not only ultra-accessible, but they're often much more up-to-date than their hard copy, print counterparts!
Advanced Search
Advanced Search
If your Basic Search is still too broad, click on the Advanced Search link under the Freed-Hardeman logo.
On the Advanced Search page, you can specify the search index and add multiple search terms.
You can also use the Search Tools (towards the bottom of the page) to narrow down your search even more.
Click the maroon Search button when you are finished.
Our initial Basic Search yielded over 1,800,000 results. As you can see, using Advanced Search helped to narrow down the results tremendously. Using Advanced Search can leave you with results that are much more relevant to your research than Basic Search typically can.
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