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- Standard vs. Advanced Searches:
Standard, or "Free Text" searches cause the system to identify
the meaning of the query. Therefore, although exact matches will be
returned, words or phrases with a similar meaning with also be returned.
Advanced searches allow Boolean AND, OR and NOT terms to be used.
- Ignored 'Noise' words:
These are common words such as: a,
an, and,
as and others. These words
will be ignored by the search engine unless they are part of a Boolean
(see below) search.
- Punctuation marks:
Punctuation marks such as: ; (semicolon),
: (colon), .
(full stop/period), , (comma)
and others are ignored by the search engine.
- Special Characters:
To use specially treated characters such as &,
|, ^,
#, @,
$, (,
), in a query, enclose your
query in quotation marks (“).
- Case:
The search engine is case insensitive so the query "Library Center" will return the same results as "library center".
- Keyword Search:
The query, library center will
return all documents containing the words "library" and "center". This
type of search will return the same results as the Boolean "user"
AND "manual".
- Phrase Search:
The query, "user manual" which
will only return documents containing "user manual".
- Boolean Searches:
The query, user AND NOT manual
will return documents containing "user" but not "manual".
The query, user AND manual
will return documents containing the words "user" and "manual".
The query, user OR manual
will return documents containing "user" and also documents containing
"manual".
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