How does advanced search work?

Choose where you want to search for information:

• All UOC sources: this is the default option, as well as the most complete. Search through all the content available in the UOC Library.
• UOC Recommended reading: search only among the resources recommended by the university's teaching staff.
• UOC Learning resources: search only among the training materials produced by the UOC and used in the classrooms.
• UOC O2 repository: search only among content produced by the UOC community and available in open access.
• Catalan University Union Catalogue: search also among the contents of other Catalan university libraries.

A. Search field: the part of the content in which the keywords should appear.

• Any field: you'll get results containing your keywords in any field of the document.
• You can also search in a specific field, such as the publication's title, author, subject or ISSN.

B. Search type:

• Contains: the results will contain all the keywords you've entered, regardless of order or position.
• Contains exact phrase: the results will include the keywords exactly as you typed them, in the same order and position. This works only for searches in the author, title or subject field.
• Starts with (title search only): results whose title begins with the words you typed. You can skip or keep the initial article.

C. Boolean operators

The Boolean operators listed let you play around with, combine, and indicate relationships between the search terms.

They may appear translated into the language you've configured in the search engine: AND (or I or Y), OR (or O) and NOT (or NO).

• Material Type: journals, books, articles, images, sound recordings, videos/films and theses.
• Language: you can search in any language. Most scientific and academic publications are written in English.
• Publication year: this allows you to set a date range.