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SUMMARY OF SEARCH COMMANDS IN THE ETC |
| Database | What is searched | 1 char wildcard | Wildcard | Phrase | Boolean Default | Odd features |
| ADMYTE | Full text. Index is CDROM specific | ? | * | Default | phrase |
-- and (&/.y/.and)
-- or (+/.o/.or)
-- not (!/.no/.not)
-- proximity (. interposed)
-- Stem operator (= preposed) |
| African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century | Full text | ? | * | "" | or |
-- Exclusive Or (~)
-- Proximity and order (/) E.g., "advantage choosing wife proxy"/7
-- Proximity (@) E.g., "advantage proxy wife choosing"@7
-- Stem operator (%) E.g., choosing%
-- Thesaurus operator ($) E.g., choosing$ |
| American Indian | Full text | None | * or ? | "" | and |
-- Some search terms enact a stem search by default. A search on 'abolishment', for example, will
pick up 'abolish', and 'abolished'. This is not the case for all potential search terms. For example,
a search on 'abolition' does not search 'abolitionist', nor does a search on the latter search
'abolitionists'. |
| Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature; CETEDOC | Full text | ? | * | Default | phrase |
-- and (+)
-- or (,)
-- not (#)
-- proximity (/)
-- proximity and order (%)
-- neutralization of a metacharacter ("") |
| ARTFL | Bibliography or Full text | . | .* | Use hyperlink | and |
-- or (|) E.g., femme|homme
-- match all accented and non-accented forms (Use capital of the vowel in question)
-- match proper names only (#) E.g., #jean
-- match all proper names and non-names (~) E.g., ~pierre. I'm not sure how this differs from a straight search.
-- There are other search expressions described in the ARTFL help, but I have not been able to get them to work |
| BibleWorks | Full text | ? | * | ' | invalid |
NB: basic booleans are preposed, with no space before word (E.g., .jesus);
-- and (.)
-- or (/)
-- not (!)
-- proximity and order (*)
-- and many more (see manual p. 31- ) |
| Civil War Newspapers | Full text | ? | * | "" | or |
-- Exclusive Or (~)
-- Proximity and order (/) E.g., "advantage choosing wife proxy"/7
-- Proximity (@) E.g., "advantage proxy wife choosing"@7
-- Note: Thesaurus and stem operators not supported |
| Civil War on CDROM | Full text | ? | * | "" | and |
-- Near
The following are segment commands that take the form: Command(Searchterm)
-- RepDate (E.g., RepDate(12/10/1862 thru 1/5/1863)
-- Signer
-- Addressee
-- Greeting
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| La Divina Commedia | Full text | ? | * | Default | phrase |
-- default is to match all accented and unaccented forms
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| C-Dir Dizionario Italiano Ragionato | Dictionary entries | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Choose 'summario', then start typing the word, or the root of the word, you want to find
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| Goethes Werke | Full Text | ? | * | default | phrase |
-- Punctuation symbols indexed as spaces.
-- Variant spellings ( [] )
-- Proximity: syntax is within n words of/after/before . . .
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| HarpWeek | Headings only | ? | * | default | phrase |
-- Right truncation is automatic. Use a trailing space to search exact word/phrase.
-- Can limit search to one year or to all years, but not to more than one or less than all years.
-- See the HarpWeek Quick Reference Guide for more.
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| National Geographic | Keywords in title, related topics and contributors. Gives results for all CDs | ? | * | [] or "" | And |
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| Virginia Woolf | Full Text | See last column | * | "" | And |
-- Alternate spellings (~). E.g., ~color will find color, colour and colours.
-- Concept operator (!) E.g., power! will find power, authority, and probably more.
-- Proximity and order (w/) E.g., life w/7 books
-- Proximity (near/) E.g., life near/7 books
-- Adjacency, ignoring stop words (adj) E.g., god adj willing
-- Date range Doesn't work as advertised. Best to use Advanced Mode, and use the Browse feature.
-- Stem operator (default)
-- Exact term (place double quote after search term)
-- Exact terms in an adjacency search (single quotes around the whole search line)
-- Required additional characters (?) E.g., run? finds runs and runt, but not run or running.
'???ment' finds only seven letter words ending in 'ment'
-- Optional additional characters ($) E.g., run$ finds run, runs and runt, but not running.
'colo$r' finds color and colour
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May 1998
Paul McMillin
Reference Services Division, Olin Kroch Uris Libraries
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY 14853
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/cet/search.html
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