The first two are the most useful unless you are strictly interested in book or DVD results.
To access Advanced Search, click on the link to the right of the search box.
Then select Subject under Any Field option.
You can also use the drop down menus beneath the search box to access much of the Advanced Search functions while in Basic Search.
To select Subject search on the basic search screen, click the "anywhere in the record" drop down and select Subject.
How Subject Searching Works
Whatever way you perfom a subject search, what it is searching are the subject headings within item records, as shown below.
What makes this complicated is that while book and journal subject headings, like those above, are standardized by the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine, things get much messier when you are looking at articles within journals and other periodicals.
Article headings are standardized by database providers (and we have many of these), and by the journal itself, and sometimes even the author. This means articles will be assigned overlapping, multiple headings from as many as 3 sources. Primo 1Search lists all of them, as you can see in this article record on anxiety.
For example:
When you search by Subject in Primo 1Search, typically your list will lead off with book, then journal (not article) and video content, with article listings much lower down. If you want article results, you may want to limit your subject search with the Peer-Reviewed facet in the left sidebar.
Once you've run a search, you can further refine it using the Subject facet in the left sidebar, but remember that the terms you find there will be subject to the same categorization problems noted above.
Browse Subject search
Browse Subject searching is available by means of the Browse Search button at the top of the Primo 1Search screen.
Browse Search of subjects searches the list of subject headings in the Online Catalog. When using it, you then click to view the associated items. Only physical items that the DACC Library owns are accessible through this tool.
