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You can combine words and phrases from different fields, using and, or, and not, within, and near. Place phrases in quotes. For example:
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| Connectors |
Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Example : china and taiwan or china taiwan Example : china or taiwan Example : china and not taiwan |
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| Wildcards |
Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk or question mark:
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| Adjacency | "And" is assumed between words. Place phrases in quotes. Example : "let us build us a city" |
| Proximity |
Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use "within #" to specify how closely two words must occur together. Example : arkansas near university Example :folk within 5 music |
| Nesting |
Use parentheses () to group togther similar concepts in a search. Example : (women or gender) and (russia* or soviet) |
| Field limits |
Use field tags to limit your search to words found only in specific parts of the citation. Field tags are:
Example : s:world war and t:arkansas Example : n:cambridge and a:stephens Example : t:birds and a:james |
