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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senior meals
searches every occurrence of both of these words
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Or specifies multiple words in any field.
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job or employment
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And not omits specific words.
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clinic and not medical
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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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"San Francisco General Hospital"
"emergency room"
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| Truncation |
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Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk.
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employ*
searches for employment, employee, employer
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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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disab**
searches for disability, disabilities, disabled
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| Proximity |
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Near searches words close to each other, in any order.
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medical near free
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Within # searches words which occur within a certain number of
words of each other.
Before and after search words in a particular order.
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California within 3 university
monthly before meetings
training after computer |
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When proximity operators are contained in the search phrase, use
quotation marks around the phrase.
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"after school"
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| Fields |
Specify fields to search using field abbreviations:
o: (organization)
p: (program)
s: (subjects)
n: (note--can be used to retrieve commonly used terms) |
o:community s:housing
p:training s:homeless
n:runaway |
