Peninsula Library System Advanced Search
Modifiers |
Examples |
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| Connectors | |
| And is automatically added between all words. To search for a phrase use quotation marks. |
hotels boston searches every occurrence of both of these words |
| Or specifies multiple words in any field. | fashion or apparel |
| And not omits specific words. | mouse and not computer |
| Adjacency | |
| Word order matters. Words within quotation marks are searched as a phrase. | "United States Supreme Court" |
| Truncation | |
| Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. |
environment* searches for environment, environmental, environmentalist |
| Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters. | |
| Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation. | Alex** searches for Alexander, Alexandria, Alexis |
| Proximity | |
| Near searches words close to each other, in any order. | California near university |
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Within # searches words which occur within a certain number of words of each other. |
America within 3 econom* |
| Before and after search words in a particular order. |
John before Kennedy Jr. after Kennedy |
| When proximity operators are contained in the search phrase, use quotation marks around the phrase. |
"near fatal" "deep within" "before midnight" "after school" |
| Fields | |
| Specify fields to search using field abbreviations: | |
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