Keyword searching in MORRIS (the Law Library online catalog) is extremely useful for finding books when you have partial information or when you are beginning a subject search. Over the summer the keyword function has been upgraded, making advanced keyword searches possible. Here are the highlights:

Keyword searches now search all words in the record (not just the title).
Keyword searches interpret word strings as phrases. Use connectors between words that you don't want MORRIS to interpret as a phrase. (See the list of connectors below.)

Examples:
human rights (finds only occurrences of the phrase)
human rights and america (finds records where both terms occur)
human rights near america (finds records where 'human rights' is within 10 words of 'america')

You can limit your keyword search to particular fields in the record (author, title, subject) or combine keywords from different fields. (See the list of fields below.)

Examples:
a:wright and a:miller (finds records with authors Wright and Miller)
a:wright and t:procedure (finds records with author Wright and word 'procedure' in the title)
s:health care and s:united states (finds records with the phrase 'health care' and the phrase 'united states' in the subject field)

You can nest complex search expressions in parentheses.

Example: (medical or hospital) near regulation

You can limit your search by language and date and select a sort method before running the keyword search. (This option is available only from a search form on the MORRIS web page.

Connectors:
and (&): both terms must appear in the record
or: either term must appear in the record
near: terms must appear within 10 words of each other
within n: terms must appear within 'n' words of each other
not: term must not appear in record

Fields:
Author: use a: a=, au:, au=
Title (searches chapter titles as well as book titles): use t:, t=, ti:, ti=
Subject: use s:, s=, su:, su=
Note: use n:, n=, no:, no=