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How to Refine Your Search Results
- Apply the Relevance
This allows you two options to sort search results by Date Newest (Current) or Date Oldest (Historic)
- Check out the Refine Result
- Current search parameters are positioned at the top of the left column
- You can turn parameters off and on.
- Set Your Limit To Filters
- Selecting the Catalog Only (Books & Media ) Limits your Searches to books, e-books, and media.
- Selecting the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed Journals) Limits search results to peer-reviewed journal content
- De-selecting the Available in the Library Collection & Onl;ine broadens your search results to include titles that the OC Library doesn't have in its collection. This also activates an ILL link for titles the OC Library doesn't hold so that the search can order them through InterLibrary Loan.
- Date
- Resource Type
- Library Location
- Subject
- Geography (about or published in a specifc geopraphic location
- Publisher
- Language
- University
- Limit by Database
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