John Jay College of Criminal Justice Finding Books on CUNY+
CUNY+ is the online catalog for library materials held by the City University libraries. CUNY+ includes records for books, periodical titles, reports, government documents, etc. owned by any CUNY library. Additionally, many Web sites & Web documents have been cataloged for your use.

GETTING STARTED

CUNY+ can be searched for John Jay Library material only, or for all the City University libraries together (CUNY Union Catalog). When in the Library the default setting will be the John Jay Catalog.

From off campus, choose to search only John Jay material by clicking ‘Select Individual CUNY Libraries’ from the blue taskbar at top of screen, then select John Jay. At top of screen, it should say, “You are searching: John Jay” .

SEARCHING

On the Basic Search Screen you can perform 2 types of searches: a Browse search (for an author, title, or subject heading) or a Keyword search (words located anywhere in a record). Browse should be used when you are trying to find a particular book and know the author or title or when you know the title of a specific journal. Keyword should be used when you are looking for material on a topic and do not know specific titles.



SEARCH BY KEYWORD

  • In the Search by Keyword section of the search screen, type a word, phrase or combination of search terms using the word “and” between terms . Ex: teens and alcohol abuse
  • Click the SEARCH button.
  • A list of titles will appear with the newest listed first

    BROWSE AN ALPHABETICAL LIST

  • In the Browse an Alphabetical List section of the search screen:



  • Click the BROWSE button .
  • A browse list will appear, select the desired item by clicking on it.
  • You will see your list of results. To see more information about an item, click the title. This will give you the full record for the item including full author information and subject headings.
    BROWSE SEARCH EXAMPLES: Morrison Toni
    (author)     		Color Purple
    (title)     		Capital Punishment
    (subject)

    LOCATING THE ITEM

    Look for the Holdings field on right of listing and click the link that says ‘John Jay College’ .



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