Modifiers
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Examples
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| Connectors |
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And is automatically added between all words. To search for a
phrase use quotation marks.
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hotels boston
searches every occurrence of both of these words
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Or specifies multiple words in any field.
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fashion or apparel
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And not omits specific words.
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mouse and not computer
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| Adjacency |
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Word order matters. Words within quotation marks are searched as a phrase.
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"United States Supreme Court"
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| Truncation |
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Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk.
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environment*
searches for environment, environmental, environmentalist
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Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters.
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Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation.
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Alex**
searches for Alexander, Alexandria, Alexis
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Type a single asterisk into the search box and limit by language,
material type and/or date range to get a list of up to 32,000
titles in your chosen group.
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* with the limit "music CD" finds all music CDs.
* with the limit "Dutch" finds all materials in Dutch.
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| Proximity |
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Near searches words close to each other, in any order.
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"California" near "university"
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Within # searches words which occur within a certain number of
words of each other.
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"America" within 3 "econom*"
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Before and after search words in a particular order.
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"John" before "Kennedy"
"Jr." after "Kennedy"
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When proximity operators are contained in the search phrase, use
quotation marks around the phrase.
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"near fatal"
"deep within"
"before midnight"
"after school"
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| Fields |
Specify fields to search using field abbreviations:
- a: (author)
- t: (title)
- s: (subject)
- n: (note--can be used to retrieve titles of stories, poems, and songs in collections)
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a:Twain
a:Twain AND t:Huck**
a:United AND a:States AND s:disabilities
n:"gift of the magi" |
