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Type in Words to search: | Examples |
Adjacency |
Use quotes to search for an exact set of words. "united states supreme court" |
Whole v. Partial Words |
environment* polic* huck* finn |
Wildcards "*" matches any number of non-space characters starting at the specified position in the word. |
wom?n will match woman and women inter* will match internal, internet, international, etc. The "*" wildcard functions only after at least two characters (e.g., a search for i* produces no results. |
Operators Use "and not" to exclude words. The "not" operator is used to modify results produced by other searches with operators and cannot be used by itself. |
(Civil war) and women (mercury and not planet) |
Proximity Use "~<n>" to specify words close to each other, in any order where <n> specifies the maximum number of words that may appear between the two words. |
"fractal geometry"~10 Note: the keywords must be enclosed in quotes. |
Field limits Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database include a: (author), t: (title), and s: (subject). |
(a:twain) and (t:huck*) (a:united and a:states) and (s:handicapped or s:disabled) |