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Logging Out
When you finish using netLibrary, you should close your user account by logging out. This will prevent any unauthorized users from accessing your account.

1. Click the Log Out button on the netLibrary main navigation bar or on the bottom of the page to close your user account and log out of the netLibrary system.

• The Keyword option searches for your terms in the title, author, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher and ISBN fields. You may enter single terms (example: programming) or multiple terms that may be found in the same or different fields (example: pride prejudice or midsummer Shakespeare).
• The Full Text option searches for your terms in every word of every eBook. When using the full text option in Quick Search, the keywords are also searched and keyword results appear before full text results. Use this option to search for words that may appear in the text of a book but not in the title or other fields or to search for text you remember from a book. When using this search option, be as specific as possible.
• The Title option searches all titles for the terms you entered. You may enter the exact title (example: A Tale of Two Cities) or any portion of the title in any order (example: Huckleberry adventures). It is not necessary to enter beginning articles in the title (the, a, an, etc.)
• The Author option searches all authors for the name(s) you entered. You may enter the name in any order, with or without punctuation, and capitalization is not necessary (example: Twain, Mark or mark twain or Twain Mark).
• The Subject option searches Library of Congress Subject Headings for the terms you entered. You may enter a single term (example: computer) or multiple terms (example: civil war history).
• The Publisher option searches all netLibrary publishers for the publisher name you entered.
• The Publication Year (Power Search) or Date (Command Search) option searches for the publication date or date range you entered. Dates must be entered in whole years only. You may enter a single date (example: 1998) for titles published in 1998, an inclusive date range (example: 1955-1995) for titles published in or between 1955 and 1995, the beginning of a date range (example: -1960) for titles published in or before 1960, or the end of a date range (example: 1960-) for titles published in or after 1960.
• The ISBN option searches both the print and electronic version for the ISBN you entered.

Quick Search lets you easily locate an eBook. You can use this search without logging into netLibrary. However, to browse or check out an eBook you must create a user account and log in.

Power Search locates an eBook by Title, Author, Subject, Keyword, Full Text, Publisher, Publication Year, ISBN or any combination of these criteria. In addition, Power Search allows you to customize your search results display; you can order your results by the number of occurrences of your search words, author, title, publisher, or publication year.

Command Search lets you create a free-form query to locate an eBook. Use this powerful search feature if you are familiar with Boolean operators and with building search queries.

Use the following two-letter codes when building a Command Search:

A sample Command Search query might look like this:

au:bly and ti:writers and da:1995-

This search query performs a search of items authored by Bly, with the word "writers" in the title, published in or after 1995.

Note: Command searches can be optimized to some degree by grouping category codes. For example, if you want all eBooks with the word "blue" in title and the subject phrase "civil war" but not the subject "navy", you should compose the following query grouping the subject codes together:

ti:blue and su:"civil war" not su:navy

You can use Boolean operators with Power Search and Command Search; Quick Search does not support the use of Boolean operators. If you do not specify an operator, netLibrary uses the Boolean AND operator to join the search terms you entered.

• AND returns results that include both terms (example: history AND european).
• OR returns results that include either term (example: heart OR cardiac).
• NOT returns results that include the first term and not the second term (example: nursing NOT home).
• NEAR is limited to the Title and Full Text fields and returns results that include both terms in close proximity to each other (example: child NEAR read).
• Parenthesis ( ) may be used to group queries. Spaces after the first and before the second parenthesis must be entered (example: ( baseball OR softball ) AND coaching).
• Double quotes " " may be used to indicate phrases (example: "civil rights")
• Single Asterisk * may be used for wildcarding (example: cook* searches for cook, cooks, cooking, cookery, cookbook, etc.)
• Double Asterisk ** may be used to search for all forms of a word (example: driv** searches for drive, drove, driving, driven, etc.)

Search results are usually arranged by number of occurrences (based on the frequency of your search terms). netLibrary returns a maximum of 300 search results. The amount of information displayed depends on whether you choose the Brief display or Full display option before starting the search.

When using the Power and Command Search functions you can select the order in which you wish your search results to appear (number of occurences, author, title, publisher, or publication year) before performing the search. You may reorder your search results, after the search is completed, by using the Display results by dropdown list on the search results page.

Search results include title, author, publisher and publication year information. To view more information about the book before reading or checking it out, click the title. A book summary page ("About this eBook") is displayed.

Notes:

• The Browse function may not be available for all netLibrary eBooks.