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This search will find any Title or Series in the CMIS Resource Bank by matching any word from the title or series.
  • Start searching by typing in the full title of the item or full name of the series for the most specific result.
    Eg: 1. Typing in ‘after january’ will find Nick Earls’s book After January.
    Eg: 2. Typing in ‘his dark materials’ will find Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Golden Compass, the three titles in this series.

  • A search with only one word of the title or series will locate the item, but also bring up a number of other titles.
    Eg: 1. Typing in ‘after’ will find all titles containing ‘after’: After January and The Song of Hiawatha: After the poem.
    Eg: 2. Typing in ‘january’ will find After January and Australia's Constitution: With overview and notes by the Australian Government Solicitor: updated to January 1998.
    Eg: 3. Typing in ‘materials’ will find Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Golden Compass from His Dark Materials series, and The Internet and mathematics education [website] : Resource material for students.

  • In each database record, authors and illustrators are listed in the title statement. Searching for The Green Prince by Sophie Masson using ‘green’ as your search word will also find Divorce by Janine Amos; illustrated by Gwen Green.

  • Typing in a common word in a title such as ‘australia’ currently brings up 220 items in the CMIS Resource Bank. In this case, it may be better to use the All Fields search and put in anything else that you know about the item.
    Eg: 1. Australia and website.

  • You may also use one or more Restrictor from the drop-down menus to limit your results.
    Eg: 1. Choosing Australia as the search name will give you all resources having Australia in the title of the item across all Learning Areas and Phases of Development [220 items].
    Eg: 2. Choosing Australia and Early Adolescence will give you only the resources having Australia in the title that are suitable for students in this Phase of Development [130 items].
    Eg: 3. Choosing Australia and Society and Environment will give you resources having Australia in the title to support work in this Learning Area [116 items].
    Eg: 4. For a narrower result, you may also select Australia and Early Adolescence and Society and Environment [87 items].

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