Basic Searches in WorldCat Discovery

Truncation lets you search for related words that have the same root. Just enter the beginning of the word and add an asterisk (*) after the root.

For example, if we search for comput* and narrow our results to books, we get titles with computer, computers, computational, and computing.

Wildcards:

• Use the pound sign (#) to represent a single character.
• Use the question mark (?) to represent zero to 9 characters within a term.