Please enter your search keywords in the form below:
Concept Operators
Concept Operators are used when you are specifying more than one search word or search element. The Concept Operator tells the search engine whether you mean that all of the words/elements must be present in the document for it to count as a match, or if any one word/element makes the document count as a match. The concept operators include AND, OR and NOT.
Examples:
research AND core – this will display all pages that include both the word “research” and the word “core” somewhere within the page. These words do not need to be next to each other.
research OR core – this will display all pages that include either the word “research” or the word “core” within the page.
NOT research – this will display all pages that DO NOT contain the word “research”.
NB. If you want to search for the words AND, OR, or NOT then you must place the search within quotation marks (“ ”)
Exact Search
To perform a search for an exact phrase, you must place the word/phrase within quotation marks (“ ”).
Examples:
“family members” – will show all pages where family members appear in the document together.
“family members” AND “patient” – will display all pages where family members appear in the document together and the document must also contain the word “patient”.
Wildcards:
| * | * stands in for any number of characters (including
0).
A search for Fu* would find Fusion, Fugazi, Fuchsia, etc. |
| ? | ? stands in for any single character. More precise – and thus generally less helpful – than the * wildcard. A search for ?ar?et would find both carpet and target, but not Learjet. |
| { } | Allows you to specify a number of possible word fragments, separated by commans. A search for {gr,frag,deodor}rant would find documents that contained grant, fragrant, or deodorant. |
| [ ] | Like { }, except brackets stand in for only one character at a time. A search for f[eao]ster would find documents that contained fester, faster, or foster. |
| - | Allows you to place a range of characters within square brackets. Searching for A[C-H]50993 is the same as searching for A[DEFGH]50993. |
If you use any wildcard other than ? or *, you must use either
single or double quotation marks around the actual wildcard
pattern. We would recommend that you use single quotation
marks.