In order to get the most out of the NPL PowerSearch and Subject Search, we offer the following tips:

1. Please peruse the Subject Search in order to get an understanding of the subject and subhead categories that are available.

2. If you are trying to search by subject, you will get more thorough results by using the Subject Search.

3. To see what a particular author has written on a particular subject, use the PowerSearch and enter the author's last name and a subject term or keyword in the box labeled "all of the words".

4. To see what has been writen about a subject in a particular journal, use the PowerSearch and enter a subject keyword and a keyword from a journal title.

Examples of how the 3 boxes work in the PowerSearch are given below:

contain all of the words
Results will contain all words (separated by spaces) listed in the box.

Example: Christ
would return results that contain the word Christ

Example: Christ Deity
would return results that contain both the words Christ AND Deity _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

and contain the exact phrase
Results will contain all of the words listed in the box in order and without interruption.

Example: Deity of Christ
would return only results that contain the phrase "Deity of Christ"

(If you try this particular phrase it would return no entries because that exact phrase does not occur in any entries in the database. However, if you used the Subject Search, you would see "Jesus Christ" is a subject and "Deity of" is a subheading under the heading of "Jesus Christ". There are, in fact, some entries under that heading/subheading combination that do not contain the exact phrase "Deity of Christ".) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

or contain any of the words
Results would contain one or more of the words in the box.

Example:  Christ Deity
would return results that contain either Christ OR Deity
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The wildcard in the PowerSearch is the %. You can use it before or after a string of characters in any of the boxes. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________