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| Adjacency | Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. | United States supreme court |
| Truncation | Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. | environment* polic* |
| Wildcards | You may use a question mark to replace a single character anywhere within a word. | wom?n |
| Operators | Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. | (annotated bibliography) and child* (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation) |
| Proximity | Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. | California near university |
| Field limits | Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a: (author), t: (title), d: (subject), N: (note), m: (media only), and v: (search media and bibliographic data). | (a:twain) and (t:huck*) (a:united and a:states) and (d:handicapped or d:disabled) |