What are title and author searches, and how do I do them?

• Title search: search for any words within the title of the material.
• Author search: search for the name of an author (includes artists, composers or corporate authors such as an organisation).

To perform these searches, click on Advanced Search and select the relevant field under Search filters.

Title search

You can search for any words from the title of an item (book, series, thesis, video, etc.) using Advanced Search.

In the example below, we are searching for a journal titled Art in Australia. We entered the title in quotations, which only searches items with that exact phrase as the title. If you don't know the full title, try searching for keywords from the title.

You can search through all ANU material, or limit the results to a particular location. In the example below, we limited our search to only ANU Journals.

Author search

You can search for the names of authors, artists, composers and corporate authors of an item using Advanced Search.

In the example below, we are searching for works by Australian author Patrick White. When searching for an individual author you need to enter their surname first, followed by their given name.