Search tips
Tabs
Use to combine search terms (always in capital letters)
AND | searches for hits that contain all of the search terms marketing AND tourism -> searches for hits containing both the term marketing as well as the term tourism |
OR | searches for hits that contain one of the search terms college OR university-> searches for hits containing either the term college or the term university When searching for certain topics, it is helpful to enter the terms in both German and English and combine these using the OR operator. |
NOT | searches for hits that do not contain the search term that appears after NOT president NOT obama -> searches for hits containing the term president but not the term obama In some circumstances, relevant hits may be excluded when using the NOT operator. |
Use to search for more than one term in a precise sequence using quotation marks
"Fachhochschule Vorarlberg"
Wildcards are used as placeholders
? | for any character; this is useful when there are alternate spellings Tos?ana for Toskana, Toscana |
* | for no or any number of characters comput* for comput, computer, computing, computers, computational etc. |
When there are a lot of hits in the results of a search in Olav, these can be narrowed down by selecting the appropriate fields in "Refine your search".