Experiment with how you search

• By default, Fleet Search searches all terms you have entered, without the need to use AND.  For example: entropy art color will find items that contain all 3 terms.
• To improve the relevancy of your search results, enclose phrases in "quotation marks".  For example: "visual perception" or "climate change".
• To find variant endings for a word, use the * asterisk (truncation symbol.)  For example:  artist* finds artist, artists, artistic.

Use filters

• To find books, dvds or other items in the RISD Library, refine your search by selecting "Available in Library Collection."
• To find scholarly journal articles, refine your search by selecting "Academic (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
• You can refine a search by limiting by Language. However, be aware that many English language articles have not been tagged as English, so will be missing from your search results.
• By default, Fleet Search searches through the full text of documents (if available).  This may cause a large number of results, and not all are relevant to your subject.  Results are returned in a relevancy ranked order. Alternatively, sort results by date newest or date oldest.

Find content via different methods

• Many items have direct links to retrieve the full text. For those that don't, use "Check your library holdings for availability" to determine if RISD Library has the item in print or online.
• Items not directly available through Fleet Search or our catalog can usually be ordered through Interlibrary Loan.