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Database

Boolean

Truncation and

Wild cards

Adjacency

and

or

not

 

* = truncation

Implied. See note.

Selected Field Tags

Parenthesis ( )

Phrases

so source

au author

de descriptor

 

 

pt publication type

article

book

    

Adjacency. If the second word of a two word phrase is within 15 characters of the first letter of the first word in the phrase.

e.g. Carbon Reinforced retrieves records containing the phrase carbon fiber reinforced.

 

 

Search Example:

homeless (persons or famil*) and de=(family relations) and so=(social work)

 

 

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It was last updated on June 18, 1999.
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