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Our catalogue offers several sophisticated search procedures. To profit maximally from our library search interface (IMIS), we guide you through the possibilities:

• In all fields one can search by using the Boolean operators & (AND) and | (OR). In a standard way, the interspace is replaced by the & (AND) operator. One can also use a quotation mark to search for a string of words.
  Sea & coast : all records containing both ‘sea’ and ‘coast’
  Sea | coast: all records containing ‘sea’ or ‘coast’
  "sea and coast": all records containing exactly this combinations of words
  

• One can also search for parts of words.
  Ocean% : Ocean% : all records containing this string of characters, e.g. ocean, oceans, oceanography, oceanic, etc.
  %bmarine ground%: all records containing this exact combinations of characters, e.g. submarine groundwater, submarine grounded, submarine seepage of fresh groundwater, etc.
  

• · One can combine both techniques.
  "%bmarine ground%": all records containing exactly this combination of characters, e.g. submarine groundwater, but NOT submarine seepage or fresh groundwater.
  

• Searching for Author
  

  Here one can also use the % operator.
  

  %cain : gives you all publications of authors like Cain, Caine, Mccain, Buscaino, etc.
  

  Do you want to search for publications of 2 or more authors? Use a & (AND)

  Van% & mees : gives you all publications by Vanaverbeke and Mees, or by Mees and Vanhove, or by Arvanitidis and Mees, etc.
  

• Searching for Acquisition Date
  

  Allow you to search for records that are entered into our catalogue before, after or on a specific date.

• Searching for Special Collection
  

  Selecting one of our ‘Special Collections’ gives you a list of all records on this specific subject:

  "Spuikom Oostende (Belgium)" gives a list off all publications of this brackish Sluice Dock in Ostend, Belgium.

• Searching for Thesaurus term
  
• Searching for Taxonomic term
  
• Searching for Geographic term
  

  By clicking on the ‘list’ right of these fields, you get an overview of the keywords used in our catalogue. Here one can also use the &, | and % operators.
  

  "Archipelagoes" (from the Thesaurus list) gives all records containing this keyword
  "Nemertina" (from the Taxonomic list) gives all records containing this keyword
  "ANE, Belgium, Flemish Banks" (from the Geographic list) gives all records containing this keyword