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| Operation | Example | Description |
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| Boolean operators | ||
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Income AND Labour +Income +Labour |
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| OR | Income OR Labour | Either one term or both terms must be included in the document. |
| NOT - |
Income NOT Labour Income -Labour |
Excludes a term (labour). |
| By default, the operator for search is AND Boolean operators must be capitalized There is no space after the "+" or "-" operators |
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| Phrase search | ||
| " " | "income in Canada" | Quotes are used to tell the search engine which terms must be found together in the document. |
| Wildcards | ||
| * | immigr* ➔ immigration, immigrated, immigrating, immigrant, immigrants. *cipl* ➔ principle and discipline |
A wildcard, * is used to replace any number of characters in the search term. |
| A wildcard can be in any position in a word Search automatically provides the stemming of a word, e.g., income ➔ incomes |
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| title | title:"Health Reports" | Provides a title search. |
| There is no space after the colon. | ||
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