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| Search Guide | ||
| Truncation / Wildcard Characters | |||
 The symbol "?" is used as a right-handed truncator only; it will find all forms of a word. Example Econom? Finds "economy', "economics", economical" etc. |
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 The symbol "*" is used to replace any single character, either inside the word or the right end of the word. Note: The "*" cannot be used to begin a word. Examples: Wom*n finds "woman", "women"; "T*re" finds "tare", "tire", "tyre", etc. |
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| Boolean and Other Operators | |||
| Operators | Boolean, proximity and adjacency operators are used to broaden and narrow your search. |
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Operators
Boolean, proximity and adjacency operators are used to broaden and narrow your search.
Operation: AND
Explanation: Match all of these words
Example: internet AND education
Operation: OR
Explanation: Match any of these words
Example: internet OR intranet
Operation: AND NOT
Explanation: Match this word (or phrase) and remove those articles containing the second word.
Example: internet AND NOT html
Operation: WITHIN
Explanation: These words separated by n or less by a specified distance in any order
Example: computer W/3 careers
Operation: NOT WITHIN
Explanation: Match all words but this one within a field
Example: computer NOT W/2 careers
Operation: PRE
Explanation: Match these words within n words in a field
and in this order Example: world pre/3 web
Operation: WITHIN DOC
Explanation: Match these words within either the indexing or the text
Example: internet W/DOC education