
Search
Using the search facility:
Type any word or words in the box (it doesn't matter if you use upper or lowercase). Use the wildcard symbol * to represent one or more characters. For example:
| astro* |
will find |
astronomy |
| | astrology |
| | astronaut |
| | etc |
Boolean searching:
Boolean logic is an information retrieval technique which allows a number of search terms to be combined using logical operators.
A search term containing 2 or more words will default to be treated as an AND boolean search term.
- AND
- used to combine terms so that a record is retrieved only if all the terms occur in it
e.g. cat dog : AND - will find only those documents where both cat and dog occur in the same document
If you wish to use the boolean OR term, which in most cases returns a wider and larger result group, simply change the list term to OR.
- OR
- used to combine terms so that a record is retrieved if any or all of the terms occur in it.
e.g. cat dog : OR - will find all documents where either cat, dog or both, occur in the document.