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DR-NTU User Guides

This guide provides information about submitting your works (FYP, Thesis and paper) to NTU digital repository (DR-NTU).

Search

  1. Quick search: Type in keywords to search title, author, subject, abstract of each item’s record at the quick search box.




     
  2. Facet search: Do a quick search and uses the sidebar facet to filter search results into multiple categories – type, author, subject, date, etc. This allows you to narrow down the search results.

Browse

Browse feature is available at the Communities & Collections, Research Papers, Theses and FYPs at the top menu.
At Communities & Collections, click on each collection under the community to browse the specific publications.
At Research Papers, Theses or FYPs, click on the browse field names under Browse. 

Communities & Collections


Research Papers

 

Theses

 

FYPs

Search Tips

What is not searched - Stop Words
Certain words that appear frequently in English will be ignored by the search engine. These are:

"a", "and" , "are" , "as" , "at" , "be" , "but" , "by" , "for" , "if" , "in" , "into",

"is" ,"it" ,"no" , "not" , "of" , "on" , "or" , "such", "the" , "to" , "was"

Phrase Searching
To search multiple words as a phrase, put quotation marks (") around the phrase.

Example: "climate change"

Truncation
To find variant forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) after a word stem 

Example:  organ* will retrieve organic, organs, organizing, organized, organisations, organizations, organisational


Boolean searching

The following Boolean operators can be used to combine terms. Note that they must be CAPITALIZED !

AND - to limit searches to find items containing all words or phrases combined with this operator

 Example: renewable AND energy will retrieve all items that contain BOTH the words "renewable" and "energy"

OR - to enlarge searches to find items containing any of the words or phrases surrounding this operator

 Example: green OR building will retrieve all items that contain EITHER the words "green" or "building"

NOT - to exclude items containing the word following this operator

Example energy NOT petroleum will retrieve all items that contain the word "energy" EXCEPT those also containing the word "petroleum"

Parentheses ( ) can be used to group search terms and connected by different operators

Example: (renewable OR energy) AND (green OR building)