Consider the following when using Standard Search and Advanced Search:
Boolean Operators(AND, OR, NOT)
Search is not case-sensitive.
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capital |
capital or Capital |
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Capital |
capital or Capital |
You can search for multiple words. The search looks for publications having all your words in no particular order.
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death penalty |
death AND penalty |
Tips
Entering multiple words or phrases as an exact phrase might provide better search results. See Exact Phrases for more information.
In Advanced Search, you can specify how the search handles multiple words by choosing All the words, Any of the words, or The exact phrase from the drop down menus.
Enclose exact phrases in quotes.
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"criminal psychology"
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"criminal psychology" (both words must appear together in the specified order) |
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criminal psychology |
criminal AND psychology (both words are present but not necessarily near each other) |
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"attention deficit disorder" |
"attention deficit disorder" (all words must appear together in the specified order) |
The Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT can be used in the Standard Search.
AND means you want publications having all your search words, in any order.
OR means you want publications having any of your search words.
NOT means you want publications having the first word but not having the second word.
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crime and punishment
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crime AND punishment (both words must be present) |
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crime or punishment
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crime OR punishment (either word must be present) |
If you use more than one Boolean Operator in the same search, you must use parentheses to indicate which search words should be linked by which Boolean operators. Search processes the words in the parentheses first, then combines them with the words outside the parentheses.
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Not Correct |
Correct |
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cats or kittens or felines and dogs
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(cats or kittens or felines) and dogs |
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feminist or feminism or philosophy or philosophical |
(feminist or feminism) and (philosophy or philosophical) |
When you use the truncation command, search looks for all words beginning with the letters you type in. Truncation will not work in an exact phrase search. The truncation command is *
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comput* |
computer, computers, computing, computerized, etc. |
