In Bibliotek.dk, you can choose between two ways to search - basic and advanced, depending on your task at hand.

Basic search

In many cases, the basic search will be sufficient.

Write in the search box what you are looking for. It can be a title, an author, a topic, or a mix. If you remember part of a title, the author’s first name, and that it was a book - just write that, for example:

• "to kill harper book"
• "murakami women"
• "beatles abbey"
• "quiet girl dvd"

 

 

If you know which material type you are looking for, you can choose material type up front to only search for i.e. films

In the search results, you will have several options to continue working with your search.

Use the filters to refine by material type, physical/digital material, language, fiction or non-fiction, and more.

The order of hits in the search result depends on several factors in the underlying ranking. It is continuously adjusted, but the following rank highly:

• popularity
• new materials
• Danish materials
• exact hits

Advanced search

As a student or researcher, you may need to do more advanced searches. Go to the advanced search page. Click Advanced next to the search field.

Field search

You can now search using field search, where you compose the search using fields connected by the operators AND, OR, NOT.

Be aware that if you choose to edit your search in CQL the changes will not appear in the boxes in field search. Once you start editing in the CQL-field you will not be able to switch back to field search. 

 

Truncation

If you are not quite sure of the ending of your keyword or just want to search broadly, you can truncate your keyword with an asterisk *. When you truncate, you search at the beginning of the word and any ending. This means that searching for climate* searches for all words that start with climate: Climate change, climate policy, climate research, etc.

 

Further Limitations

You can narrow down your search to a specific time interval, a particular language or material type and age group using the dropdown boxes at the bottom of the advanced search page.

Command Search

Go to "Edit in CQL" in order to search using search operators. The search operators are specially developed for the search method used for advanced search.

 

Please note, that many search terms must be in Danish, since the indexes are only developed in Danish.

Here you have a list of the most often used search operators:

 

• term.subject=epigenetik and term.creator="ida donkin"
• term.title="pussy riot" and worktype=movie
• term.title="your man" and term.creator=cohen

 

Search operator	Examples
dk5	dk5="85" dk5="79.62"
let	let="12"
lix	lix="28"
publicationyear	publicationyear="2020" publicationyear within "2020 2019" publicationyear > 2021 publicationyear >= 2021 publicationyear < 1984 publicationyear <= 1984
worktype	worktype="article"
phrase.cataloguecode	phrase.cataloguecode="BKM202310"
phrase.contributor	phrase.contributor="charlie chaplin"
phrase.creator	phrase.creator="kim leine"
phrase.fictionalcharacter	phrase.fictionalcharacter="Sherlock*"
phrase.gameplatform	phrase.gameplatform="playstation 4" phrase.gameplatform="xbox one"
phrase.generalmaterialtype	phrase.generalmaterialtype="musik" phrase.generalmaterialtype="aviser"
phrase.genreandform	phrase.genreandform=digte phrase.genreandform="graphic novel*"
phrase.language	phrase.language=dansk phrase.language=finsk
phrase.subject	phrase.subject="efterforskning"
term.accesstype	term.accesstype=online term.accesstype=fysisk
term.contributor	term.contributor="charlie chaplin"
term.creator	term.creator="kim leine"
term.default	"kim leine" AND karolines
term.dk5heading	term.dk5heading="Grønlands historie"
term.fictionalcharacter	term.fictionalcharacter="Sherlock*"
term.generalmaterialtype	term.generalmaterialtype="musik" term.generalmaterialtype="aviser"
term.specificmaterialtype	term.specificmaterialtype=blu-ray
term.genreandform	term.genreandform=digte term.genreandform="graphic novel*"
term.hostpublication	term.hostpublication="Information"
term.isbn	term.isbn="9781911215387" term.isbn="978-1-86197-876-9"
term.mainlanguage	term.mainlanguage=dansk term.mainlanguage=finsk
term.series	term.series="krimiserien med martin juncker og signe kristiansen" term.series="martin juncker" term.series="harry potter-universet"
term.subject	term.subject="efterforskning"
term.title	term.title="karolines kærlighed"

Do you need access to see all search codes? You will find them here: Search codes