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University of South Australia Library offline Catalogue

What to look for:

Use this to determine where data is searched

Relevance-like search No Yes

Number of records to return 50 100 500 (It will take longer to return more records).
Start display at record number 1 50 100 500
Ignore words that appear in more than 100000 200000 records. (see note under 'Keyword Searches' before using).

N.B. The permanent location of an item is displayed under Call Number Or Reserve. Unfortunately, the Catalogue backup cannot tell whether an item is at that location, elsewhere in the Library, or on loan.

Search Hints

  • Keyword searches
    Enter all terms you want to see in the retrieved records. Terms are automatically combined with the word AND. To include records where only some of your search terms occur, choose Yes for the relevance-like search. Results are sorted alphabetically by title (with most relevant first). If you don't see records you expect, check near the top of the results page. If a word that you really want is ignored because the count is too high, use the 'ignore words' option above to include it. If a word is ignored because it is 'not found', check your spelling.

  • Course Reserves:
    Enter the lecturer's last name or the course code with no space. e.g. biol239

  • Title, Author, Subject and Call-number searches
    Enter as much of the title (or author or subject) as you know. Results are sorted by the title, author, subject, or call-number, as appropriate.
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