Keyword Searching

You can do a keyword search to find items when you do not have exact bibliographic information, such as the author or title. Keyword searching lets you search for records that have a specific word or words in the title, contents, subject, or series. You can search for one keyword or many, or for a whole keyword or part of a keyword. You can also view a keyword list that shows the possible keyword matches for a specific search index.

For example, if you want to find items with titles that contain the words “medical procedures,” choose the Title Keyword search option and enter “medical procedures” in the Search for field. Or if you want to find items about medical procedures with any title, choose the Subject Keyword search option and enter “medical procedures” in the Search for field.

If your system is set up to display international characters (using Unicode), you can do a keyword search on foreign language indexes.

The types of keyword searches you can do depend on the search options set up by your system administrator.

Horizon does not locate misspellings or variations of a keyword. If no matches are found, check the spelling of the word or enter a truncated version of the word. Your Horizon system may be set up to ignore common words, such as “man” or “the.”

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