Relevancy Ranked Results |
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Keyword search results are ranked by relevancy. This is intended to bring the best results to the top.
Results will appear in up to 5 groups. Each group is ordered by date by default.
To deactivate ranked results, select: Author, Title, Subject, or Note from the Any Field drop down menu OR enclose your search string in quote marks OR sort your ranked results by Date or Title. |
| Most relevant |
The search string appears in the title proper. |
| Highly relevant |
The search string appears in the subtitle. |
| Very relevant |
The search string appears in contents, summary, or note fields or subject or other added heading fields. |
| Relevant |
The Boolean AND pulls words from the search string in the title proper and/or subtitle. |
| Other relevant |
The Boolean AND pulls words from the search string from anywhere else in the record. |
| Field limits |
Use labels to search specific fields:
a: author t: title s: subject n: note |
a: zora and t:watching
s:hopi and s:religion |
Search Tips |
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Examples: |
| Adjacency |
Multiple words are not searched as a phrase; they are AND-ed together. To search for an exact phrase, enclose your search string in quote marks.
Note: If your search string contains any of these words: AND, OR, AND NOT, BEFORE, AFTER, NEAR, or WITHIN, put quote marks around the string, or it will not be searched as a phrase. |
"Saint Louis University" |
| Truncation |
Use * to substitute for 1-5 characters.
Use ** to substitute for any number of characters.
Use ? to substitute for a single character. |
Photograph*
huck** finn
wom?n |
| Operators |
Use "AND" to search all words.
Use "OR" to search ANY single word.
Use "AND NOT" to exclude words.
Use NEAR to retrieve records that contain the specified words or phrases within ten words of each other in the same indexed field.
Use BEFORE and AFTER to retrieve records that contain the specified words or phrases in a particular order in the record. Any number of words can appear between the specified words or phrases.
Use WITHIN to specify the maximum number of words that may appear between the specified words. |
art and therapy
dog or canine
environmental policy and not U.S.
birds near North America
chester before arthur
louis within 2 university |
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Note that you can use these clauses in combination with selections from the operator pulldown menu (as indicated in brackets). |
History [And]
Naples or Napoli [And]
Borgia or Alexander |
| Proximity |
Use "NEAR" to search words within 10 words of each other.
Use "WITHIN #" to search words within a specific number of words. |
birds near North America
louis within 2 university |
| Field limits |
Use labels to search specific fields:
a: author t: title s: subject n: note |
a: zora and t:watching
s:hopi and s:religion |
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