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| Search Tips | |
| Searching for connected topics: | |
| Alternatively: Put art forgery in search box. |
| Searching with alternative terms: Put tsunami or tidal wave in search box. | |
| Searching with alternative terms and a connected topic: | |
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Alternatively: Put (tsunami or tidal wave) prediction in search box. Note: parentheses are necessary when combining terms with "or". |
| Excluding aspects of a topic: Put star wars and not film in search box. | |
| Limiting to specific fields: Preceding a term with a:, t:, s:, will limit the search to the author, title or subject field, respectively. Example: a:twain | |
| Other searching advice | |
| Results: For most searches results are grouped by relevance, then sub-grouped by your selection form the following pull-down menu: by date, title, or relevance: 
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| Exception: Advanced phrase searching (below), where results are grouped solely by how you set the "Sort by..." pull-down menu (above). | |
| Searching an exact phrase: Put "red shift" (use quotation marks) in search. | |
| Searching with only part of a word: Put tchaikovsk* in search box. One asterisk substitutes up to five letters. Put bosnia-herz** in search box. Two asterisks substitute for any number of letters. | |
| Searching for words near each other:: Words in the same field, any order, not beyond the specified number of words: Put universe within3 expanding in search box. Words in the same field in any order: Put television near children in search box. | |
