Keyword searching is extremely powerful, and there are many special commands that enable you to do very sophisticated and precise searches. Results are displayed in chronological order, with records for each year in alphabetical order, so CLIO can be a good way to keep up with the most recent scholarship in a field. However, only the first 1000 hits will display. Use distinctive and precise keywords. If your keywords are very general, the search will take longer and the results may not be pertinent to your research.
Truncation searches all possible endings of a word.
CLIO will only retrieve the first 100 matches. If your search generates more than 100 different matching terms, you will get incomplete and inaccurate results. Keyword search terms may be combined with operators enabling you to broaden or narrow a search. The more specific the operator, the fewer matches you will get. Keyword searches may be qualified to limit search terms to a field or group of fields in the author, title, or subject portion of the record.