Please note: Generally, this search engine will retrieve text only in the descriptions of collections, not in the collections themselves. This is because most (but not all) of the electronic collections available on the Five College site are available as images only. Certain collections, however, are available in ASCII text format and are therefore accessible by keyword search.

• All searches are case-insensitive. Punctuation is ignored.
• word1 word2 Matches words beginning with either word1 or word2
• "word" Matches the word exactly
• "word1 word2" Matches the exact phrase (can be very slow)
• word1 +word2 Matches words beginning with word1 and word2
• word1 -word2 Matches words beginning with word1 and not word2
• word1 url:word2 Matches words beginning with word1, but only on pages whose URLs start with word2

Examples:

   mary                  Matches Maryland, Mary Lyon, or Mary Smith
   "mary lyon"           Matches Mary Lyon
   "mary" -smith         Matches Mary Lyon, but not Mary Smith or smithie
   "mary" +lyon          Matches Mary Lyon or Lyon, Mary
   mary +lyon            Matches Mary Lyon; Lyon in Maryland; or Lyon, Mary
   lyon url:/mhc/  Matches pages about Mount Holyoke which mention Lyon