It is possible to do a Title search or an Author search in most of the databases. In some of the database. It is also possible to search other fields . Once you have selected a database to search, a list of the fields and field labels is available under the online Help . The available fields and field labels vary from database to database.
Field searching can be a very effective way to narrow a search.
It is usually not a good idea to truncate a word with fewer than three letters since you may retrieve many irrelevant terms. There are other truncation symbols that can be used in certain ways. OR, NOT may be used in searching. The NOT operator should be used with great discretion because it may exclude useful records from the search. The positional operators NEAR and WITH may be used also.