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About MyDiscovery

WorldShare MyDiscovery is a Cloud-based application that enables users to search WorldCat and discover billions of electronic, digital and physical holdings in a single search.Worldcat brings together valuable information about collection items, electronic resources and the libraries that make them available

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Search

The basic search is a simple keyword search. You can start your search without restricting it in any way by entering the search terms you are looking for. You will likely receive a very large number of results and need to filter to narrow your results.

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Phrase searching

  • “Renewable energy systems” - this search will return results from anywhere in the abstract, it is not limited to the title of the publication.

Title phrase:

  • Ti=“Renewable energy systems” - will search in the publication title only

Title words:

  • Ti:Renewable energy systems - will return titles with renewable energy systems in the title but not necessarily as a phrase.

Author search:

  • Au=O’Shea, Mark – will return Surname, first name
  • Au:O’Shea – will return a surname OR first name

Year:

  • Yr=2018

Boolean – By default MyDiscovery add an invisible AND between your terms.  Boolean operators should always be entered in CAPS

  • Women AND work
  • Nutrition OR “food science”
  • Paris NOT fashion

Truncation – MyDiscovery does not automatically search for plurals or alternative endings.  To make a search more comprehensive, truncate words using an *asterisk*

  • Garden* finds: “garden,” “gardens,” “gardening”

Nesting – By nesting, you can group words together in a way that make sense to the catalog

  • (botany OR “plant biology”) AND history

ISBN – bn:0203190076 (use the 10 or 13 digit ISBN)

ISSN – issn:18749372 (use the 8 digit ISSN)