Advanced
Search
What this
workspace looks like:
Click on the thumbnail image below to view the Advanced
Search screen.
How to
get to this workspace:
- From any screen in booksinprint.com,
click SEARCH
on the top navigation bar.
- From the Search Results
screen, click either the NEW
SEARCH button or the REVISE
SEARCH button.
What you
can do from this workspace:
- Search for book, audiobook or video title(s) using a
fill-in-the-blanks form that lets you combine as many as 30 search criteria.
- Perform a Quick Search for book, audiobook or
video titles.
- Jump to the Boolean Search workspace (click image
below to see how).
- Jump to the Search History workspace (click image
below to see how).
- Presort your search results (click image below to see
how).
- Perform any top navigation
or bottom navigation option
- Clear or reset the search form (click image below to
see how)
- Determine what indexes you'd like to see listed by default whenever you
use booksinprint.com
(click image below to see how).
How to
use this workspace:
- At least one search criteria must be selected in
order to perform a search. A "search criteria" is (1) a term you enter into an
empty field, or (2) a criteria you select from a drop down menu, or (3) a
criteria you select by clicking a checkbox or radio button. To enter a term in
a field, place your cursor in the field and enter a term.
- Click on any of the SEARCH buttons.
- You'll arrive at the Search
Results screen, which lists all titles that match your criteria.
Searching
from indexes:
Check the Search
Fields Chart to find out how to use each field in this workspace.
Note: You can tab to the next field throughout this workspace.
Search
Examples:
The image below shows a search screen with the following criteria:
- keywords: "Dreamweaver" and "windows"
- status: in-print only
- results sorted by date in descending order
- Non-fiction, Softcover book titles only
- return audiobook, video and book titles in search
results
- title must cost $50 or less
- title must have been published in 1999 or 2000
The image below shows a search screen with the following criteria:
- a PG rated video with performers Peter O'Toole and
Richard Burton
- only return active video titles costing less than $50
The image below shows a search screen with the following criteria:
- in-print or forthcoming Non-fiction books that were
discussed on the Oprah Winfrey Show
- the titles must have been published in 1999 or 2000
- the title must be distributed by Baker & Taylor
- search results are sorted by date, in descending order
