Keyword searching allows you to combine one or more terms e.g. If you were interested in finding out about the consumption of wine on feast days you could type wine feast
Advance searching allows you to modify searches e.g. if you were interested in limiting your search to feasts that took place in Canterbury you could type “Canterbury feast”~10 which will look for all instances where the words Canterbury and feast are separated by no more than 10 words. By using proximity searching you are increasing the likelihood that your results will match your enquiry.
If you wanted to find out more about feasts in Lincoln or Canterbury you could type Lincoln | Canterbury . This will find sources containing Lincoln or Canterbury or both.
If you wanted to find all articles which mention Canterbury but not the Archbishop, you could type Canterbury !archbishop
You can also limit your search by date e.g. if you were only interested in sources from the 13th and 14th century, you could set date parameters of 1200 to 1300.
Once you have opened a book or manuscript image, you can zoom in and out, rotate, print and download by clicking on the PDF icons.
The navigation pane outlines the structure and content of the source and may include a front page, contents, chapter headings and an index, allowing you to go directly to the relevant section.
You can search within a single book by typing keywords into the search box found in the book window’s toolbar.

You can open and work with multiple ebooks and manuscripts rather than just one at a time.
You can open up any collection of manuscripts and any book at the same time, which makes tracking down printed versions easier.
You can save books, manuscripts and favourite pages to a Personal Bookshelf by registering as a user. Your content will appear in the special ‘Bookshelf’ area in the MEMSO toolbar, and appear every time you visit MEMSO. Books can be removed by clicking the red icon to the right of every title.