- ISBN field
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- Modifications have now been made to the website, and you should now enter the ISBN as one string (ie. no dashes). Also be aware that is there is an X in the ISBN it needs to be entered as an X and not an x.
- If you know the ISBN then enter it as this will take you directly to the book details.
- e.g. 0140707026 will fetch the details of Penguin's 1967 edition of Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
- Title field
- The entire field is counted as 1 title.
- e.g. Midsummer Night's Dream returns books whose title contains Midsummer Night's Dream.
- e.g. Midsummer returns books whose title contains Midsummer.
- Author field
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- A single word in the author field will find books by authors with that surname.
- e.g. Plato in the author field will find all books by Plato.
- If the text entered is separated by spaces then each word takes part in the search.
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e.g. William Shakespeare will find all books by the authors William and Shakespeare together.
- An asterisk is used to indicate a wildcard.
- e.g. Shake* will find all books where the author's surname starts with Shake.
- A quote is used to indicate the string is to be taken literally.
- e.g. "Clarke, A.C" will find books by that author.
- Publisher field
- The entire field is counted as 1 publisher.
- e.g. Oxford University Press returns books by those publishers whose name contains Oxford University Press.
- e.g. Oxford returns books by those publishers who name contains Oxford.
Note The number of records displayed per page can be set, the default is 10 for minimal download times.
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