Search Tips
Keyword

Use double quotation marks to search for a phrase.
Example: "art therapy"

Use truncation to find words with the same root letters:  Use ? to replace a single character.  Use * for the root word plus 1-5 characters.  Use ** for more than 5 characters.
Example:
wom?n finds "woman," "women"
art* finds "arts," "artists," "artistic," etc.
art** finds "artificial," "artillery," etc.

Use AND and OR to search  multiple words.
Example:  stocks and bonds (finds both words)
Example: men or boys (finds either word)

Use AND NOT to exclude words.
Example:  dogs and not poodles

Use NEAR for words close to each other, in other order.
Example:  art near therapy finds both words
Title

Accurately and correctly spell the first few title words.  For very long titles, type only enough words to achieve relative uniqueness.
Example:  twenty thousand leagues retrieves: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

For very short titles, type a vertical bar (|) at the end of the title to eliminate longer titles beginning with those words.
Example: time| retrieves: Time magazine
Author Search by Personal Name, Corporation/Organization, or Government Agency.
Example: american bar association
Adjacency Words can be searched as a phrase by enclosing them in double quotation marks.
Example : "art therapy"
Wildcards Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. '*' for 1-5 characters, '**' for open-ended truncation, '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word.
Examples : art* [finds arts, artists, artistic]
art** [finds artificial, artillery]
gentle*n
gentlem?n
Boolean Operators Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words.
Example : stocks and bonds
Example : (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation)
Proximity Operators Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.
Example : art near therapy
Grouping Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query. Click here for more details on Ranked Results