Search Tips

 

I.          Keyword Search

 

1.                  Enter your search term(s) in the Keyword field and use Boolean Operators to improve your search results. The four searchable fields are Title, Summary, Subject and Creator.

2.                  Click Search. Your search results are displayed. You can select, browse, print, e-mail or download several search results.

 

II.                Category Search

Choose one Category from the pull-down menu in the Category field. Your search results are displayed. You can select, browse, print, e-mail or download several search results.

 

III.       Using Special Operators to broaden and narrow your search

 

1.         The symbol  % is used as a right-handed truncation character only; it will find all forms of a word.
For example, searching for chi% will find "China", "Chinese", “children", etc

 

2.         Boolean Operators

 

AND	Find records which have all the words. Example: China AND bridges
NOT	Find records which have the first word, but not the second word. Example: China NOT bridges
OR	Find records which have any of the words. Example: China OR bridges
Xor	Find records where one or the other word is present but not both. Example: China Xor bridges

 

 

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