You can use a basic search to find items by keyword, title, subject or author. The default option is to search by keyword.
You can limit your search results to Everything, Books, Articles & Media at CSUB, or Outside CSU Bakersfield.
Basic search tips:
To search for an exact phrase put quotations marks around the first and last words of the phrase. For example: "No Child Left Behind Act" will give you results that only include items with that exact phrase.
You can use these words to narrow or broaden your search in Library Search: AND, OR, NOT (Be sure to use ALL CAPS).
AND – retrieves results that have all the specified terms. So a search for education AND technology will only retrieve results that have education and technology in the results. It is a useful way to narrow your search.
OR – retrieves results with at least one of the search terms. So a search for Levant OR Daesh will retrieve results that include either the terms Levant or Daesh or both.
NOT – excludes any search results that includes the specified term. It is most useful to use NOT when trying to eliminate irrelevant results. So a search for covid NOT vaccine will give you results related to covid, but will not include results about the covid vaccine.
