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Advanced Keyword Search Tips
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| Boolean Operators | and searches both words or searches either word and not excludes words |
barn and owl (grey or barn) and owl owl and (grey and not barn) |
| Wildcards | * Use a single asterisk to truncate from 1-5 characters | child* (for child, children, childhood) col*r (for color, colour) |
Tip: A single asterisk can be typed in the search box and limits applied to retrieve all items within a certain limit. |
Type * in the search box, limit to Portuguese in the language drop-down, then limit to Audiovisual in the Material Type drop down. This will retrieve all audiovisual items in Portuguese. |
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| ** Use double asterisks for open-ended truncation. | intern** (for intern, internet, internal, international) | |
| ? Use a question mark to replace one letter within a word | wom?n (for woman, women) | |
| Phrases | Place quotation marks around exact phrases | "world health organization" "greenhouse effect" "war on terrorism" |
| Field Searching | AUTHOR: Search for an author by last name, first name. | hemingway, ernest garcia marquez, gabriel |
| TITLE: Search for a word that appears anywhere in the title. Omit initial articles such as a, an, the, etc. | family robinson (instead of The Swiss Family Robinson) two cities (instead of A Tale of Two Cities) étranger (instead of L'Étranger) |
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| SUBJECT: Search for a word that appears anywhere in the Library of Congress Subject Heading |
Colorado interpersonal relations |
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| Proximity Operators | Use NEAR to find words or phrases within ten words of each other. | international near conference |
| Use WITHIN to specify the maximum number of words that may appear between two words. | fractal within 3 geometry |
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