How to find books

Searching in the Sofia Discovery tool

Enter keywords in the search box to run a simple search in the Sofia Discovery tool.

Sofia Discovery tool simple search screen

There are a few way to make your search more complex. Either you can follow the link to the Advanced Search page (just below the search box), or you can use some of the following notations:

“greenhouse effect” for results where the words are side-by-side
“greenhouse effect” OR “greenhouse gases” for results that include either phrase
(“greenhouse effect” OR “greenhouse gases”) AND (ecosystem OR animals) for results that include one phrase from each group
(“greenhouse effect*” OR “greenhouse gas*) AND (ecosystem* OR animal*) to retrieve all words that start with those letters

greenhouse effect OR greenhouse gases keyword search in Sofia Discovery tool

Advanced Search lets you use all of those notations, and also search particular fields (e.g. Author). You can use each search box for a different word or phrase.

Advanced search using Author index in Sofia Discovery tool

You can also set limits on date, location or format.