Palgrave.com Help - Search and Browse Help

Browse
Search
Results and export results
How to use the 'Search' field
How to use the 'ISBN' field
How to use the 'Published Between' field
How to use the 'Series' drop downs
How to use the 'Classification' drop downs
How to download bibliogrpahic detail into PDF format
"OR", "AND", "NOT" Search Operators
Using More than One Search Field
Using Multiple Search Terms

Browse

The Palgrave catalogue has over 12000 titles in many subject categories. You can browse these titles via different methods:

Subject Browse
Browse by all titles currently available.

New Books
Browse by titles published within 9 months of current date, in reverse order.

Out of Print Browse
Browse by titles currently out of print.

Once you have selected the browse type, then select the subject of your choice, the associated sub-categories will expand. The system will then return a list of title links found within the subject classification you have selected.

Search

The search function can be used to search for a particular book in the Palgrave Macmillan title database which contains over 12000 titles. There are many ways in which you can perform a search, depending on what information you have about the book(s) that you are looking for. Please note that punctuation marks should not be used when entering your search terms.

The search function ignores common words and characters such as "where" and "how", as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. Palgrave.com will indicate if a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page below the search box.

There are two types of Search:

Quick Search - simply enter your keywords in the search box above
Advanced Search

How to use the 'Search' field

This field allows you to search for titles using multiple criteria, ISBN, keyword, author name and title.

To ensure the most accurate results are returned you can also tick one of the radio buttons immediately below this textbox to weight the search criteria towards either title, author name, keyword or series.

You can use this field to locate books with references to a particular keyword. For example typing in the keyword money will list all books containing this search term within their title record (i.e. searching their title, description and contents).

This field also searches on ISBN and Series.

How to use the 'ISBN' field

ISBN (International Standard Book Numbering) is the standard way of differentiating book titles from each other. ISBNs are composed of 10 or 13 digits e.g. 0333668529 or 0-333-66852-9. If you know the ISBN of a book, use this field to locate the book simply by typing in the 10 digit number.

To save title you can also paste any amount of text into this field and strip all ISBNs from that text.To use this feature, simply paste text containing ISBNs into the text area. Click 'Format' to avoid having to retype ISBNs when you have a page listing them.

How to use the 'Published Between' field

If you know the year of publication of a book, then use these field and select the date range you wish to search on. If you do not specify a year then all publication years will be included in your search of the Palgrave database.

Publication Date ranges must be selected in logical order, thus the start date must be earlier than the end date, and not the other way round this will produce and error and return 0 results

Click the calendar icons to view a pop-up calendar.

To find all titles published before a certain date, simply leave the first set of dates blank

To find all titles published after a certain date, simply leave the second set of dates blank

To find all titles published this month click the button marked 'All titles published this month'

How to use the 'Series' drop downs

Some books are part of a series, for example the Economics Today series. If you want to locate books within a series use this drop-down list to find the name of the series.

How to use the 'Classification' drop downs

If using the subject classification drop-downs please note these are best utilised on their own, that is to say, entering keywords along with a subject for example will yield 0 results. It is possible however to define pub dates within subject classifications.

When using the subject classification, please note some selections may contain 0 results. If this occurs please widen the search criteria.

Results and export results

Titles are now grouped by work, meaning that paperback and hardback (as well as ebook, cdrom etc.) editions can be viewed together. Once a search has been performed click on expand all to view title details, or click on the title to view title details.

Filter you results, using our search filters on the right-hand side of the page, filter by title, author, price, pub date and subject to return a narrower set of results based on your preferences.

Order directly from the search results, if you know you want a book get to our ordering system quickly.

Export options, in addition to exporting your search results as excel you can now export as xml and pdf. Click on 'export search results' above your search results and follow the instructions on the page. Take your results away with you and use as you wish.

How to download bibliographic detail into PDF format

To download bibliographic information on any given title into a PDF template simply click the button titled 'PDF - create custom flyer' on the title page. For full instructions on usage please click here.

"OR", "AND", "NOT" Search Operators

Palgrave supports the logical "OR", "NOT" and "AND" operators. To retrieve pages that include either word A or word B, word A but NOT word B, word A AND word B, use an uppercase OR, NOT and AND between terms. For example:

to search for a title about politics but not history related, type politics NOT history
to search for a title about politics and history, type politics AND history
to search for a title about politics or history, type politics OR history

Using More than One Search Field

You can use several of the search fields together. For example you might want to search for books by a particular author in a particular year. If you want to do this then use the Author and Publication Year fields.

Using Multiple Search Terms

You can also search using multiple search terms within a field, this will return more refined results than a single word. For example, typing English Politics will return more relevant results than typing just Politics. (Keep in mind that relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query terms.)

Example: English Politics