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Type in Words to search: |
EXAMPLES |
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ADJACENCY |
Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. |
United States supreme court
federal civil procedure |
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TRUNCATION |
Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5
characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation.
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bank* [picks up bank, banker, banking, but not bankruptcy]
bank** [will pick up bankruptcy as well]
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| OPERATORS |
Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and
not" to exclude words.
Parentheses group words together when using Boolean
operators.&nbps; |
(annotated bibliography) and
child*
(alaska or canada) and (adventure not vacation) |
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| PROXIMITY |
Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.
Use "within #" to specify terms which occur within # words of
each other in the record. |
California near university
america within 3 econom*
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| FIELDS |
Specify fields to
search, using field
abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a:
(author), t: (title), s:
(subject), and n: (notes and additional keywords) |
(a:twain) and
(t:huck*)
(a:united and a:states) and (s:handicapped or
s:disabled) |