Searching using Operators (Boolean, positional, and relational) allows you to focus your search by linking search terms and defining the relationship between them.
Nesting allows search expressions to be grouped or nested using parentheses. The digital library searches the expression located in the innermost set of parentheses first, and then continues the search, moving outward to the terms at the edges of the expression.
The digital library ignores Stopwords when searching, and searches on the keywords of an expression. These stopwords are usually articles, prepositions, or conjunctions, such as a, an, as, at, be, but, by, do, for, if, in, it, of, on, the, and to, among others. Enclose your expression in double quotation marks to prevent the stopwords from being ignored.
Searching Using Substitution and Truncation allows the symbols ? and $ to be used to represent substitution and truncation.
To individually Search Numbers in a List, you must type a space between each number. The digital library searches numbers separated by commas as if the numbers were not separated. The following examples may help you search numbers in a list.
| • | The digital library searches 1,2,3,4,5 as a single term. |
| • | The digital library searches 5000 and 5,000 as the same term. |
| • | The digital library searches 1 2 3 4 5 as separate terms. |
Your digital library handles Punctuation in specified ways.
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