Alex
Use Alex,
North Carolina State University Libraries' gopher-based Catalog of
Electronic Texts to search for a specific work by title, by subject,
or author.
Alcuin
Like Alex,
Alcuin is an etext
search engine maintained by the North Carolina State University
Libraries. What distinguishes Alcuin from Alex, is its
hypertextual interface.
Alex uses the
Niso Common Command
Language. When entering your search terms, you can:
- enter a simple phrase, such as:
- qualify your searches by author and title fields:
- use the text-string au to specify a
search-by-author
- use the text-string ti to specify a search-by-title
- use boolean operators to execute complex searches, such as:
- aristotle or plato not (republic)
- use the following wildcards:
- ? (a question mark) to signify multiple characters
- or # (a number/american pound sign) to signify just one character
Use the following query-submission form to:
- return to Camera Obscura
- Blindness-Related Resources on the Web and Beyond
- Caveat Lector
- Caveat Delector
- Etext Archives, Academic and Scholarly Resources
- The Virtual Museum
- return to the top of this document