Searching the collection

General information

You use the Search field on the Collections page to search for all titles in the collection. The search results are dependent on the locale set in the installation of Quria; not on the user interface language. This also affects the sorting of search results.

  1. Go to the Collections section in the main menu.
  2. Write your search query in the search field and press Enter.

  3. You can also search the title for a specific item number by switching the Scan item-toggle. Then you can enter an item number, manually, by scanning a barcode or using RFID.

  4. You can refine the search by expanding the tool located just below the search field.
  5. You can also reduce the search hits to titles with holdings at a particular part of the organisation, using the dropdown menu just below the filter tool.
  6. Narrow down the search results further using the search facets on the right-hand side.
  7. Click a title in the search results list to open the title details. If there is only one hit, the title details page opens directly.

The presentation of the search result

The search result in Collection/Search is presented per language expression. A click on a row leads to the work page from where you can see all work information and reach all related expressions and manifestation of a work.

The default sorting of the search result is alphabetically on creator first, and then expression title.

Titles without creator are listed before titles with creator. Titles starting with a special character are listed first, then numbers and then letters.

The sorting can be changed by clicking on the colums creator, title and language.

Note:
No filing is applied for the title, sorting is made on the first letter in the title.

The search results are in some cases dependent on the locale set in the installation ofQuria; not on the user interface language. Example: in a Swedish installation a search for “tal” gives another result than for “tål”, which is not the case in a German. This also affects the sorting of search results.

Filtering the results list

You can narrow your search in the Facets column to the right, in the following areas:

  • Creator
  • Subject
  • Literary form
  • Target audience
  • Publication year
  • Manifestation type
  • Language

The terms within each area are listed in most hits order, apart from publication years that are listed chronologically.

Check a box to narrow the search to only show titles corresponding to that term. Note that it is only the search results list that is narrowed; when you click on a title you will still be able to see all languages, media types etc. on the title details page.

Checking more than one term (A, B) means show the titles corresponding to A and B.

Important information:

The search in Collections is performed in the whole work with it’s underlying expressions and manifestations. This means that a search for information that belongs to just one manifestation can give several rows in the hit list. Example: A work has 2 expression, one in English and one in Swedish. The English expression has 2 manifestations, one from year 2020 and one from 2022. The Swedish expression has 1 manifestation from 2023. If you search for publication year 2020 you get both the Swedish and English expression in the hit list.

Saving searches and recent searches

Your most recent catalogue searches are automatically saved, and you find these at the upper part of the search page. The list of recent searches is cleared when you sign out from Quria. You can save your favourite searches for future use. Saved searches do not include use of facets.

Free text search

Quria uses fuzzy search. This means that matches similar to the search query will also be listed in the search result. Fuzzy search is applied to search words longer than 5 characters.

See also: Search guide

The following fields are included in the free text search:

Work

  • Title
  • Creator
  • Subjects - all fields
  • Variant titles for the work
  • Description
  • Genre
  • Associated places
  • Relationships (title+creator)

Expression

  • Title
  • Contributor
  • Notes on resource
  • Variant titles of the expression

Manifestation

  • Title
  • Other title information
  • Variant titles of the manifestation
  • Series title
  • Standard numbers (ISBN/EAN/ISSN) Enter the number without dashes in free-text search
  • Notes on resource
  • Publisher
  • Place of publication
  • Publication year

Refined search

Refined search gives you an option to perform search in specific fields, for example title or creator without the use of a prefix. You reach these fields by expanding the tool located just below the search field.

Advanced search

Truncating: Use an asterisk (*) anywhere in a word. The asterisk represents zero, one or several characters and the search results will include words with any character(s) where the asterisk is. You can use this when you are not sure of the spelling. Fuzzy search is not applied with truncation.

Masking: Replace a character with a question mark (?) anywhere in a word. The question mark represents one character. Fuzzy search is not applied with masking.

Phrase search (strings delimited with quotes “ “):

The words in the phrase must be in the correct order.

The phrase can be the whole field or part of the field. Fuzzy search is not applied with phrase search.

Operators: Construct search strings using boolean operators AND, OR, NOT (capital letters), and parenthesis. If there is no operator, an implicit AND is used.

Prefixes: Use the prefixes below followed by a colon and the search criteria. You can use the long or the short prefix name. Words in the search query without prefix are searched as free-text.

Examples:
cre:brown will search for creators named Brown.
sub:(Europe history) AND sub:England will search for subjects Europe and history and subject England,

(bike OR bicycle) AND sub:sport will search for bike or bicycle in free text and subject sport.

See also: Search guide