Glossary of Terms

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions:

The FAQ's page on the Library's website gives information about questions often asked about various Library services and access to them. If you are having difficulty with things like off campus access or E-reserve you can check the FAQ's to see if your problem is listed. FAQ's are under the Online Assistance menu on the homepage.


Field:

Citations in the Catalogue or databases are divided into a number of fields for example an author field, a title field, a publisher field and a date field. What fields are called and what is in them can vary from database to database.



Field Limiting:

In a search of the Library Catalogue or databases you can limit which fields where your search terms will be located. For example, history and psychology in title field for items that have the words history and psychology in their title. Freud in author field for all items written by Freud.