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PORT 401A- Tropical Dreams: Nature and Art in Brazil

This guide is intended for students in PORT 408A/SPAN 609A: Tropical Dreams: Nature and Art in Brazil. It includes resources for locating books and journal articles, and other materials, through the UMD Libraries. Email the subject specialist for more

UMD Discover- Index Labels

UMD Discover also has index labels which allow for very specific searches.   The following example shows how to search for John Stark's book The Literature of Exhaustion: Borges, Nabokov, and Barth.  

When using boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) place them in upper case letters.

Click here for a full list of index labels

 

Phrase Searching in UMD Discover

Use quotes to retrieve records with an exact phrase literature of exhaustion.  Without quotes the individual words will be combined with an "and" operator.

Advanced Search

From the UMD Libraries' home page click on Advanced Search.

 

Boolean, Wildcards, and Related Subject Searches

Use the OR boolean operator, in upper case, to include alternate spellings, synonyms. or related terms; enclose the terms within parentheses (); this technique CANNOT be used in the first box, but CAN be used in the second or subsequent boxes.

The asterisk (*) is the truncation symbol. (e.g., argentin* matches argentina, argentinian, argentine, etc.)

You can use the drop down menus to change the index labels.  In this example in the second box, "title" was changed to "keyword".

You can add additional rows to your search.


Boolean, Wildcards, and Subject Searches

 

Once you find a book on your topic use the "Subjects" that appear in the "Description" of the record to find additional resources on your topic.