The search engine automatically searches across a wide range of fields,
including Title, Summary, Full Text, Author Name, Subject Tags and
Publication Source. But you can use the tick boxes to confine your
search to any combination of four specific fields: Title, Summary,
Full Text and/or Author Name.
This only looks for results containing an exact match with the
phrase you enter. You can also search for exact phrase matches using our standard
search - just put your phrase "in double quotes".
This looks for results containing all the words you enter. If all
your words cannnot be found, no results will be returned. Our standard search also
looks for all your words, but if it can't find them all, it returns results containing
the best combination of words that it can find.
This looks for results containing at least one of your search terms.
You can also use our standard search to do this by putting an uppercase OR between
your terms - e.g. iphone OR smartphone OR apps
This excludes from your results items that contain any of these
words. You can also use our standard search to do this by putting an uppercase NOT
in front of any words you want to exclude - e.g. smartphone NOT iphone
Boolean terms can be used to create sophisticated word search queries, commonly
using AND, OR, NOT and NEAR. For example:
- iphone AND smartphone looks for results containing both words
- iphone OR smartphone looks for results containing at least one
of the words
- iphone NOT smartphone looks for results containing the first
word but not the second
- iphone NEAR smartphone looks for results containing both words
close together in text
Terms can also be combined together as well as used in conjunction with "exact phrases",
for example:
- "Apple iphone" AND (apps OR applications) NOT Vodafone
You can enter Boolean search phrases into our standard search. They must be entered
in UPPERCASE.