You may select one or more criteria to search our database:

Define your field of research
You can use key words to search the entire John Libbey catalogue (journals, books, newsletters).

Publication dates
You can enter the dates between which you wish to conduct a search.
The oldest articles available date from 1995.

Using key words
The search is conducted using one or more key words.
If you wish to conduct a fairly broad search, it is recommended to use several key words.

The "Search results" then appear, giving access to articles.
The results are listed in order of relevance.
Access to article summaries is unrestricted. Access to the full text of most articles must be paid for (through an online subscription or on a pay-per-view basis).

Accents and capital letters

Upper and lower case letters. The search engine is not case-sensitive, so you may type in upper or lower case.

Accents. The search engine can cope with accented characters. You may enter key words with or without accents.

Searching for part of a word

The asterisk (*). The search engine also lets you look for part of a word by using an asterisk (*) to replace any other character or group of characters anywhere in a word.

Examples:

• If you type the keyword dermato*, the search engine will find all documents containing the "dermato" chain of characters, such as dermatology, dermatologist and dermatosis.
• The same procedure can be used at the start of a word. If you type the keyword *osis, the search engine will find all words ending in the suffix "osis".
• You may also combine two asterisks. If you type *mato*, the search engine will find all words that contain the letters "mato" (but not at the beginning or end of the word).

Boolean search

A Boolean search lets you combine words to narrow down your field of research still further. It uses standard operators: ET, OU, SANS, PAS, NON.

• ET allows you to combine several key words
• OU broadens the search to articles and books which contain the key word or words
• SANS, PAS and NON restrict the search to articles which contain one key word and exclude another.

More complex searches

• Parentheses () can be used to make your search even more precise. They should be used in exactly the same way as in mathematical calculations.