Art -- Fourteenth Century -- (Netherlands OR Dutch) This example combines two different words for the same geographical area
Art + Topic + Historical Period:
Art -- Women -- Gothic
Art -- Patronage -- Fourteenth Century
Art and society -- Benin
Examples of category/topic words:
History
Social aspects
Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Women in art
Marriage in art
Monuments
Artists and patrons
TIP: Use the *
Use the * (asterisk) to truncate your search terms, to search several terms at once.
Example: illuminat* = "illuminated"+ ""+ "illumination" + "illuminations", etc.
Combining Key Words
AND, OR, & NOT (also known as "Boolean operators") help you combine search words, to find what you are looking for. Watch this video to find out how it works:
Adapted from the materials created by The University of Auckland Library, NZ. This video is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license.
