Search Tips

• Use short, single terms unless your searches are returning too many results
• When you enter more than one term, the search will look for records containing all of them unless you add the word "OR" between your terms.
• "NOT" can help limit searches -- e.g., climate NOT change
• Except for boolean operators, searches are not case-sensitive, so "Geneva" and "geneva" are equivalent
• Enclose a phrase in quotes (") to search for the whole phrase, not individual words (e.g., "protein folding") -- both leading and ending quotes are required
• Phrase searches may be combined with boolean operators: "climate change" OR "global warming"
• The search uses stemming by default so that close word variations will also be found (e.g., "sequence" also matches "sequences" and "sequencing"). Use the wildcard * character to match wider variation (e.g., nano* to match both nanotechnology and nanofabrication), but note that searching uses stemmed, or shortened, versions of words, so "cogniti*" finds nothing while "cognit*" finds both cognitive and cognition
• If you're not sure of the spelling, put a ~ at the end -- e.g., cabage~ finds cabbage, steven~ finds Stephen and Stefan (as well as a few unwanted extra words)
• To match a person or unit's primary entry, enter name: Smith or name: Biology