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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 |
| 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. | environment* polic*
fyodor dost** |
| 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 not vacation) |
| 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* |
| FIELDS | Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a: (author), t: (title), d: (subject), and n: (note.) | a:twain and t:huck* a:united and a:states and (d:handicapped or d:disabled) |
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