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| Adjacency | Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. | United States supreme court | ||
| 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. | comput* matches computer, computing, etc., but NOT computational.
comput** matches computational, computer, etc. |
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| Wildcard | Use question mark ? to substitute a single character within a word. Words that share all other characters will be matched. | anders?n will match both "anderson" and "andersen". | ||
| 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. | (annotated bibliography) and child* (alaska or canada) and (adventure and 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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