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Basic Search

• Default search operator is AND. Can use OR or NOT (Can also use "-" to exclude a term). Use all capitals for Boolean operators
• Can do nested searching: anxiety (children OR adolescents).
• The system does not recognize phrases, even within quotation marks. Browse (String) Search is not available in the system.
• For better precision, include more words or use Advanced Search to limit retrieval of search terms in author, title, or subject. Other field searches can be done in Basic Search using these commands:

Word Variants

• The system expands a search by retrieving spelling variants and other terms with the same stem: disobediance also retrieves disobedience; adolescent also retrieves adolescents, adolescence.
• Results that include the exact term(s) searched are ranked higher than those with the additional terms used to expand the search.
• Use quotation marks around a search term to turn off automatic stemming and word variants. "Adolescent" does not retrieve adolescents or adolescence.

Results

• Default sort is by relevance. Can be resorted by year (ascending or descending) or author
• The word cloud contains words that the system determines are closely related to the term(s) you searched.
• Size of font of cloud term indicates relevance.
• Distance or direction of cloud term from the center of the cloud has no significance.

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