Sample searches in OskiCat:
keyword search, then find official subject headings:
london history
(subject) london england history
london gentrific*
london docklands
* = truncation or wildcard symbol; child* - child, childs, children, childish, childhood...
"trafalgar square"
quotes keep words together as a phrase
in MELVYL:
in most library catalogs you may:
Google Books contains millions of scanned books, from libraries and publishers worldwide. You can search the entire text of the books, view previews or "snippets" from books that are still in copyright, and read the full text of out-of-copyright (pre-1923) books. Want to read the entire text of an in-copyright book? Use Google Books' Find in a Library link to locate the book in a UC Berkeley library, or search OskiCat to see if UC Berkeley owns the book.
Why use Google Books?
Library catalogs (like OskiCat) don't search inside books; using a library catalog, you can search only information about the book (title, author, Library of Congress subject headings, etc.). Google Books will let you search inside books, which can be very useful for hard-to-find information. Try it now: