Help:Screen:AdvancedSearch
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The Advanced Search page provides three separate search capabilities: title search, author search, and publication search.
Each has the same interface: up to three search terms which can be joined via "AND" or "OR". For each term the user can specify one of the following matching criteria:
- "is exactly"
- "is not exactly"
- "contains"
- "does not contain"
- "starts with"
- "ends with"
Selecting certain search criteria in the left column restricts the choices in the right column to a drop-down list. For example, selecting "Juvenile" or "Non-Genre" in the left column of the Advanced Title Search section results in the right column values being restricted to "Yes" and "No".