| Search operator |
Example |
Search result |
| "Phrase" |
"water pollution" |
water pollution as a phrase |
| Adjacency |
water pollution |
water and pollution anywhere in the same record. |
| Truncation |
accom* |
accom followed by 1 - 5 letters: accompany, accomplish .. |
| accom** |
accom followed by unlimited letters:
accommodation |
| wom?n |
women or woman: ? standing for any single letter |
| AND |
natural
and pharmaceutical |
natural and pharmaceutical anywhere in the same record. |
| OR |
Indonesia
or Malaysia |
Indonesia or Malaysia or both. |
AND
NOT |
york and not new |
york but not new york |
Brackets |
(malaysia or indonesia) and music |
malaysia and music, or indonesia and music, or both |
Proximity |
water near pollution |
water within 10 words of pollution |
| underwater within 25 research |
underwater and research within
25 words of each other. Choose any number of words. |
Fields
t: (title)
a: (author)
n: (notes)
s:(subject) |
a:
Shakespeare and
t: Romeo |
Shakespeare as author and Romeo as title. |
| n:
Heifetz and violin |
Heifetz in the Performer note and violin anywhere
else in the record |
- List keywords and phrases.
- Consider alternative spellings and different word endings.
- Use more specific words or add words using AND to narrow your search.
- When combining AND with OR use brackets around the words combined with OR.
- Use synonyms, related terms, or combine words using OR to broaden your search.
- Exclude words from your search results using AND NOT.
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