Operators

• ? to match a single character
• * to match up to 3 characters
• (** to match any number of characters)

Note: Wildcard strings will expand to a maximum of 50 characters (e.g., a search on "int**" may match Intel OR Internet OR internal OR interesting OR...) Wildcard may only appear after at least two characters (e.g., "p**" would be rejected).

Operators

• NEAR (~) retrieves records that contain the words within ten words of each other
• WITHIN X retrieves records that contain the words within X words of each other
• BEFORE and AFTER retrieve records that contain the specified words or phrases in a particular order in the record. Any number of words can appear between the specified words or phrases. For example, "blackstone before commentaries" or "commentaries after blackstone" would retrieve records containing the word "blackstone" followed at any distance by the word "commentaries" (e.g., "blackstone commentaries") but not records containing those same words in the opposite order (e.g., "commentaries blackstone").

Note: Choice of sort orders includes: reverse chronological, alphabetical, relevance (includes graphical display)