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Navigating O'Reilly - Search

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To expand your search results; try using features from Explore Skills or Start Learning

Your O'Reilly profile is accessible on the right side of the screen.  Here you can access your profile, your playlists, platform news and additional supports.

When performing a search, users are able to narrow down their results by topic, publisher, publication date and rating. From there, you can click through the tabs to see results for each content category: Books, Videos, Learning Paths and Playlists.

Search help

Looking for an exact title or phrase

Enter your search term in quotation marks to ensure you look for the exact phrase.

For example "Javascript" will bring the exact title or titles containing that exact phrase.

Looking for two or more phrases

Use AND, OR, NOT for example; NOT can be used to exclude certain terms, for example Java NOT Javascript.  OR can be used to broaden your search terms.

Or group terms together for example (Angular OR Regular) AND Framework

Searching by field name

To search by a field name, put in author followed by a colon ( : ) for example  author: "John Smith" other fields are publisher and title.

O'Reilly Answers

O'Reilly Answers is a tool that scans across all O'Reilly titles to deliver highly relevant content snippets to further explore.       

1. Click on start learning

2. Select answers.

Explore Skills

Navigating to this top bar and choosing Explore Skills will give you access to a range of subjects. View all topics will give a further range of subjects and curated  resources.