Search Tips

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• Keep it simple! Use short, single terms unless your searches are returning too many results.
• Use quotes to search for an entire phrase -- e.g., "protein folding".
• Except for boolean operators, searches are not case-sensitive, so "Geneva" and "geneva" are equivalent.
• If you are unsure of the correct spelling, put ~ at the end of your search term -- e.g., cabage~ finds cabbage, steven~ finds Stephen and Stefan (as well as other similar names).

Advanced Tips

• When you enter more than one term, search will return results containing all of them unless you add the Boolean "OR" -- e.g., chicken OR egg.
• "NOT" can help limit searches -- e.g., climate NOT change.
• Phrase searches may be combined with Boolean operators -- e.g. "climate change" OR "global warming".
• Close word variations will also be found -- e.g., sequence matches sequences and sequencing.
• Use the wildcard * character to match an even wider variation -- e.g., nano* will match both nanotechnology and nanofabrication.
• Search uses shortened versions of words -- e.g., a search for cogniti* finds nothing, while cognit* finds both cognitive and cognition.