Bibliography Database Search
Quick Search allows you to locate references through the selected database(s) by searching these indexed fields:
Author, Keyword, Periodical, Publication Date, and Title
The boolean full-text search capability supports the following operators:
+- A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.
-- A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be
present in any of
the rows that are returned.
Note: The-operator acts only to exclude rows that are otherwise matched by other search terms. Thus, a boolean-mode search that contains only terms preceded by-returns an empty result. It does not return “rows except those containing any of the excluded terms”. - (no operator)
- By default (when neither
+nor-is specified) the word is optional, but the rows that contain it are rated higher. > <- These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the
relevance value that
is assigned to a row. The
>operator increases the contribution and the<operator decreases it. ( )- Parentheses group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested.
~- A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's
contribution to the
row's
relevance to be negative. This is useful for marking “noise” words. A row
containing
such a word is rated lower than others, but is not excluded altogether, as it would be
with the
-operator. *- The asterisk serves as the truncation (or wildcard) operator. Unlike
the other
operators, it
should be appended to the word to be affected. Words match if they begin with
the word
preceding the
*operator.
If a stopword or too-short word is specified with the truncation operator, it will not be stripped from a boolean query. For example, a search for'+word +stopword*'will likely return fewer rows than a search for'+word +stopword'because the former query remains as is and requiresstopword*to be present in a document. The latter query is transformed to+word. "- A phrase that is enclosed within double quote
(“
"”) characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. Phrase searching requires only that matches contain exactly the same words as the phrase and in the same order. For example,"test phrase"matches"test, phrase".
If the phrase contains no words that are in the index, the result is empty. For example, if all words are either stopwords or shorter than the minimum length of indexed words, the result is empty.
