New Search / Simple Search

Step 1: Choose a database
   Options:

• TRIS Online
• NTL Catalog
• NTL Digital Repository
• Other Transportation Web Sites
• Search All – includes all of the above databases

Step 2: Enter search terms

• Enter one or more search words
• Boolean Searching is supported; AND is the default
• Phrases must be enclosed in quotes.
• Search terms are not case sensitive. 
  Example: highway trust fund finds Highway Trust Fund, HIGHWAY TRUST FUND, and highway trust fund.
• Word Stemming is not the default. 
  Example: speed bump will not find records with speed bumps.
• Truncation is supported. The symbol is the asterisk *.

Step 3: Select Search Index
   Options:

Field Names	Notes
All Keywords	Includes All Title Keywords, All Author Keywords, All Subject Keywords, Abstract, Table of Contents (N), and Source (N)
All Author Keywords	For T, includes Personal Name Author, Corporate Author/Publisher, and Conference Sponsor For N, include Personal Creator, Personal Name Contributor, Corporate Creator, and Corporate Contributor
All Title Keywords	Includes Title, Foreign Title, Journal Title, and Conference Title
All Subject Keywords	For T, includes Subject Areas, TRT Keywords, and Other Terms For N, include General Subject, Classification, and TRT Keywords
TRT Terms	Transporation Research Thesaurus Terms

Legend: T = TRIS Online and N = NTL Catalogs

Step 4: Click on “Search” button

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Related topics:

• Advanced Search
• Boolean Searching
• Phrase Searching
• Truncation, Wildcards, and Word Stemming
• Adjacent terms (proximity)
• Stopwords
• Search Index Table