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Use More Words

The easiest way to narrow your search is to simply use more words in your query. The greater the detail you provide, the more likely you will find precisely what you're looking for.

Use + to Require Words

Put a plus sign (+) in front of a search word and ALL of the documents found will contain the word. Do not put a space between the plus sign (+) and the word. For example, to find documents about travel but only those about travel in France, you could enter: Travel +France.

Use - to Exclude Words

Put a minus sign (-) in front of a search word and NONE of the documents found will contain the word. Do not put any space between the minus sign (-) and the word. For example, to find documents about zeppelin aircraft but not the rock band Led Zeppelin, you could enter: Zeppelin -Led.

Use AND, OR, NOT, AND NOT, ( )

You can use the AND, OR, NOT, and AND NOT operators, and parentheses ( ) for grouping.

AND – Put AND between search words and the documents found will contain all the words joined by AND. For example, to find documents that have all of the words wizard, oz and movie, you could enter: wizard AND oz AND movie

OR – Put OR between search words and the documents found will contain at least one of the words joined by OR. For example, to find documents that have either the words cat or kitten you could enter: cat OR kitten

AND NOT – Put AND NOT between search words and the documents found will not contain the word after the term AND NOT. For example, to find documents that have the word pets, but not the word dogs, you could enter: pets AND NOT dogs

( ) - Parentheses are used to group search words together. For example, to find documents that have the word fruit, and either the word banana or the word apple in them, you could enter: fruit AND (banana OR apple)