Georgia Government Publications
Basic Search Instructions

 

  • Enter your search in the Search box; then click Start Search.
    (With your cursor in the Search box, you may be able to press the Enter key instead of clicking Start Search.)

  • The default general search is a topic search, which includes titles, notes, and table of contents headings.

  • For more information about connectors and, or, and not, see the help screen, AND/OR/NOT.

  • An alternative to using the pull-down boxes to select the indexed field, you may also do a command line search. In other words, you may enter the indexed field label and the terms you wish to search in the search box. Below is a table of the searchable field labels that you may use. Full boolean (connector) searching is possible using AND, OR, or NOT and parentheses as needed.

    Examples:

    • keywords: highway and author: audits
    • ti: forestry and rt: s
    • date: 2001/11 and rectype: i
    • ti:news not au:communication
    • title_phrase: "georgia adopt-a-stream"
      (note: enclose the terms in quotes for phrase indexes)

    Note: if you do not specify an index, the default is kw:, and if you do not specify a connector, the default is and:. e.g.,

    • georgia forestry is the same as kw:georgia and forestry
     Index Name:           Searchable Labels:       Fields Indexed:
     --------------------- ------------------------ --------------------------------
     Author                 au: or author:          Author, Other Author
     Author phrase         _au: or author_phrase:   Author, Other Author
     Call Number            ca: or call#:           Call Number, Folio
     Call Number phrase    _ca: or call#_phrase:    Call Number, Folio
     Date phrase           _yr: or date_phrase:     Date
     Issue/Date             is: or issue:           Issue
     Key                    id: or key:             Key
     Keywords               kw: or keywords:        Alternate Title, 
                                                    Table of Contents Heading, Note,
                                                    PDF Table of Contents Heading,
                                                    Series Title, Title
     Notes                  nt: or note:            Note
     Place of Publication   pl: or place:           Published
     Publication Date       yr: or date:            Date
     Record Type            rt: or rectype:         Record Type
     See Also               sa: or see:             Hot Link, Hot Link Note,
                                                    Hot Link Text, See Also Link,
                                                    See Also Text
     Table of Contents      tc: or toc:             Table of Contents Heading,
                                                    PDF Table of Contents Heading
     Text                   tx: or text:            OCR Text
     Title                  ti: or title:           Title, Alternate Title,
                                                    Series Title
     Title phrase          _ti: or title_phrase:    Title
     Update Date            up: or update:          Update Date