Search Omni, the catalogue of the Queen's University Library, by Author, Title, Subject or Call Number to find books and other materials in our collection.
Search by Boolean (AND/OR/NOT) in Simple or Advanced Search to find books on topics or information in other formats, especially if you don't know the correct subject heading, or specific author or title. Use Boolean operators AND, OR, or, NOT to combine terms, quotations to do phrase searching (e.g. "rhapsody in blue") or an asterisk (*) when truncating a word (e.g. music* - to retrieve musician, musicians, musical, etc.)
Search by Boolean using AND, OR, NOT to combine terms
Narrow or refine search by adding other terms: e.g.
opera AND revolution AND france
baroque AND concertos AND disc
Broaden search using the * symbol to truncate for variable word endings (e.g. nouns, adjectives, singular or plural) or by using OR between similar or possible terms nested in brackets: e.g.
opera* AND revolution* AND (france OR french) [
use * as truncation symbol for different possible word endings]
dramma AND (giocoso OR comico)
tango* AND (disc OR sound OR video*) [
for tango music or dance on audio or video recordings; video*
retrieves all formats of videorecordings) [or limit to Resource Type "Visual" in
Omni]
Use quotes around a phrase or concept: e.g.
"opera buffa" [use for concept of two or more words]
"cultural appropriation"
"serva padrona" and AND pergolesi [for titles of films, plays, operas or songs]
opera* AND "political aspects"
Limit large result sets by library location or by using "not": e.g.
tango* [limit to Queen's Library location Music Collection (in Stauffer Library) for music; to Queen's Library Stauffer for dance/interdisciplinary materials]
beethoven AND symphon* AND "op. 68" NOT (disc OR sound) [to find books and/or scores only]
"rhapsody in blue" NOT (disc OR video*) [to find books and/or scores only]
From your results, select useful titles and click on the subjects assigned to find other books on your topic.
