User Guide

Searching Tips

Choosing Keywords

For best results, you will need to choose good keywords. Use words that are likely to appear in the document you are looking for. For example, if you are looking for documents on Shakespeare, enter “Shakespeare” instead of “authors.”

Excluding Common Words

Search LX ignores common words and characters such as "the," "where," "how," and certain single digits and letters. Common words such as these tend to slow down your search without improving your results.

Finding an Exact Phrase

To find an exact phrase with Search LX, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. For example, entering "William Shakespeare" will return results containing the author's full name and not simply the word William or Shakespeare.

Capitalization

Search LX queries are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how they are entered, will be understood as a single case. For example, searches for "SHAKESPEARE", "Shakespeare", and "ShAkEsPeArE" will return the same results.

Guest Access

When conducting a search, you can find content in courses and organizations you are not a member of as long as the content is available to guests. That is, if you choose to search the whole institution rather than a particular course or organization, any content that matches your search terms and is available to you will be returned, regardless of your membership.