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This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window| Connectors | Use "AND" or "OR" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "AND NOT " to exclude words. "And" is assumed. Example : china and taiwan Example : china or taiwan Example : china and not taiwan |
| Wildcards | Retrieve the various endings of a word, or alternate spellings, with wildcard characters:
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| Adjacency | "And" is assumed between words. Place phrases in quotes. Example : "let us build us a city" |
| Proximity | Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use "within #" to specify how closely two words must occur together. Example : arkansas near university Example :folk within 5 music |
| Nesting | Use parentheses () to group together similar concepts in a search. Example : (women or gender) and (russia* or soviet) |
| Field limits | Use field tags to limit your search to words found only in specific parts of the citation. Field tags are:
Example : s:world war and t:arkansas Example : n:cambridge and a:stephens Example : t:birds and a:james |