Basic and Advanced Searches - Scholar Wiki

BASIC SEARCH

Enter any search terms in the Search Bookmarks field and click the Search button. Basic Search will search for the keyword in the Title, Description, or Tags of bookmarks. You can also create more complex searches by entering complex queries using the Scholar Search Syntax.

ADVANCED SEARCH

Advanced Search provides a more detailed set of parameters so you can perform more focused searches and get relevant results. Advanced Search allows you to search all of Scholar's collection by one or any combination of the following eight fields:

Keywords: searches for any term in the Title, Description or Tags of bookmarks
Tags: searches for any term in the Tags field of bookmarks
Discipline Tags: searches for any of the valid Disciplines. You can select from the drop-down list or from the auto-complete list as you type. Discipline Tags that Scholar doesn't recognize will be ignored.
Course Tags: searches for any of your Course Tags. You can select from the drop-down list or from the auto-complete list as you type. Course Tags that Scholar doesn't recognize or which you do not have access to will be ignored.
Institution: searches for any bookmarks added by users who have Blackboard Learning System accounts at the selected institutions. You can select from the drop-down list or from the auto-complete list as you type. Institutions that Scholar doesn't recognize will be ignored.
User Name: searches for any bookmarks added by users with the entered username. Must be a Scholar username, not a Blackboard username.
User Role: searches for any bookmarks added by a user with a specific role. Role is determined based on a user's enrollments in the Blackboard Learning System.
User's Highest Degree: searches for any bookmarks added by user's who have achieved the selected degree. Degree is set in the user's profile.

The first four criteria are displayed on the form by default. Click on the "Add Criteria" button to add any of the last four criteria.

By default all terms within a field are joined by an AND operator and all fields are joined with an AND operator. To construct statements with an OR operator, click the "Add an OR Statement" button.

Any search can be saved by providing a name for the search in the Save Search as field and then selecting Save and Search or Save. You can read more about Saving a Search or about the Scholar Search Syntax.