Catalog Search Tips
| Put phrases in single-quotes |
'medical ethics' genome |
Finds all items with the phrase "medical ethics" and the word "genome." |
| Group synonyms in parentheses joined with OR: |
(atomic or nuclear) power |
Finds all items that have the word "power" and either "atomic" or "nuclear" |
For words with various endings, use a dollar sign
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radio$ |
Finds all items with the word "radio", "radios," or "radioactive." |
| For words with various spellings, use a question mark |
Wom?n and Lab?r |
Finds all items with the words "woman" or "women" and "labor" or "labour" |
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For searches that contain stopwords and require phrase searching use single-quotes (outside) and then double-quotes (inside)
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'"to be or not to be"' |
Finds items with the phrase "to be or not to be" and does not return stopword errors. |
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