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Adjacency

Multiple words are searched together as one phrase when enclosed in quotation marks.

"United States supreme court"

Truncation

Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk.

environment* polic*

Wildcards

You may use a question mark to replace a single character anywhere within a word.

wom?n

Operators

Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words.

(annotated bibliography) and child*

(alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation)

Proximity

Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.

California near university

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• a: (author)
• t: (title)
• d: (subject)
• N: (note)
• m: (media only)
• v: (search media and bibliographic data)
• (a:twain) and (t:huck*)
• (a:united and a:states) and (d:handicapped or d:disabled)