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Following are the most common abbreviations used by the ALEPH
command language. For a complete list, see Search in the Help.
WRD - Words
WTI - Words in title field
WAU - Words in author / creator field
WPU - Words in publisher field
WSU - Words in subject field
WYR - Year of publication
WPR - Words in seller / subject
WDS - Date of sale (yyyymmdd)
WPS - Place of sale
WNO - Notes
Lowercase letters will find matches of capitalized words also.
For example, computer will find matches for computer, Computer
and COMPUTER.
Lower-case letters will find matches of capitalized words also. For example, italy
will find matches for italy, Italy
and ITALY.
You may use the Boolean operators AND,
OR and NOT in your search string. For example, you could type painting or
sculpture to retrieve all records having painting or sculpture
in them.
Use the ? wildcard character to find matches that contain portions
of words. For example, rom? will retrieve Roma, Romani, romantic,
romantici, etc. In another example, ?ologia will retrieve
antologia, archeologia, astrologia, filologia, etc. The ? character
may also be used to find variant spellings. For example, catalo?s
will find both the American spelling, catalogs, and the British
spelling, catalogues.
Special note for searching by Date of sale.
Type the date of sale in this format: yyyymmdd.
Examples:
19650924 → year, month, day certain
188103? → year, month certain
1748? → year certain
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