Moving Within Your Results (10/09)
The results page offers several ways for you to move quickly through the documents in your search results. Navigation buttons on the page let you move through documents in a results list or through search...
View Formats (9/09)
You may look at your search results in several different view formats, available through the View drop-down list on the Results form. The view formats include: List, Expanded List, Full Document and Full...
Search Forms (8/09)
Easy Search™ Form
Use the Easy Search™ Form if you are not familiar with advanced search methods or you are not sure which sources to use. This form automatically creates a natural language...
Selecting Sources (7/09)
To access the source directory, click the main "Sources" tab from any page, or click the "More Sources" link from a Search form.
There are several ways to use the source directory:...
Precision Search Commands (4/09)
ALLCAPS Command
when using the ALLCAPS command, you may restrict your search to find words in which all letters are capitalized.
Example: allcaps (era)
ATLEAST Command
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Connectors (4/09)
Connectors establish relationships among search words. Frequently used connectors are:
AND : Use the AND connector when it doesn't matter where your search words appear in a document.
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Universal Characters (3/09)
Words come in many forms—nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs and have a variety of endings—er, est, ing, ed, and tion. Words are also sometimes misspelled. Efficient searching of news articles...
Search Words (3/09)
A search word is a single character or characters, alphabetical or numeric, with a space on either side. A hyphen is treated as a space.
Examples:
Mcpherson is one searchable word
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