Giannini Foundation: Search Index

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Search Methods

WebSTAR Search supports a number of different methods for performing searches.

Description Search

Simply describe the information that you want. For example, "Giannini Publications."

Question Search

Ask a question that you want answered. For example, "How can I obtain or download copies of Giannini Publications?"

Keyword Search

List important keywords relevant to your search topic. For example, "monographs research reports information series"

Boolean Keyword Search

Refine a keyword search using boolean operators.

Symbol

Meaning

Action

& AND Finds only documents containing all of the specific words or phrases. For example, "monographs& research" finds documents with both the word "monographs" and the word "research".

| OR Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. For example, "monographs | research" finds documents containing either "monographs" or "research". The found documents could contain both, but do not have to.

! AND NOT Excludes documents containing the specific word or phrase. For example, "monographs ! research" finds documents containing "monographs" but not containing "research". As with the & and | operators, ! must appear between two terms.

[ ] Grouping Used to group portions of boolean queries together for more complicated queries. For example, "monographs& [order | download] ! research" finds documents containing "monographs" and either "order" or "download" but not "research".

Similar Document Search

After you perform an initial search, every matching document description will contain a "More like this" link that allows you to automatically search for similar documents.