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Truncation & Wildcards: |
Example: | |
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?
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Replaces a single character, within or at the end of a word. | wom?n |
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$
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Replaces 0-100 characters, within or at the end of a word. | behav$ (behaviour, behavior, behaviours, behaviors, behave) |
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$3
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Limits the number of characters to search for. Up to 3 characters will be found in this example. | behavi$2r (behaviour, behavior) |
| Position of Search Terms: | Example: | |
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same |
In the same field. | psychology same depression |
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with |
In the same sentence. | psychological with depression |
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near |
Adjacent, in the same field, and in any order. | depression near psycholog$ |
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adj |
Adjacent, in the same field, and in the same order. | psycholog$ adj depression |
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adj3 |
Within 3 words, in the same field, and in the same order. Use another number, if you like. | psycholog$ adj3 depression |
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" " |
A phrase. It also assumes a phrase, even without the quotation marks. | "great lakes" |
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{ } (in curly brackets) |
Within this field. | "great lakes"{su} |
| Search Terms | Keyword: Title | Keyword: Any |
| canadian history | 698 items found |
7503 items found |
| "canadian history" | 698 items found | 7503 items found |
| canadian and history | 755 items found | 15,834 items found |
| canadian with history | 698 items found | 7502 items found |
| canadian same history | 698 items found | 7502 items found |
| canadian near history | 196 items found | 3170 items found |
| canadian adj history | 195 items found | 3163 items found |
| canad$ history | 972 (too many matches)* | 7528 (too many matches)* |
| "canad$ history" | 6 (too many matches)* | 5715 (too many matches)* |
| canad$ and history | 1039 (too many matches)* | 14,244 (too many matches)* |
| (canada or canadian) and history | 1787 items found | 23,789 items found |
* Warning message that truncation has resulted in too many matches and not all can be shown. This is because truncating Canada finds too many items for quick retrieval.