RUQuest (English): Search tips

Combining search terms

• It is possible to use AND, OR and NOT in your searches. Note: these must be written in capitals!
  You can choose AND, OR and NOT in an Advanced search.
• Use quotation marks ".." to do phrase searching.
  Example:"european cities" returns European cities an not African cities and European conquest.

Truncation and wildcards

• * (asterisk): add to the end of a word to retrieve variant endings; search returns records with 0 or more characters in place of the truncation symbol.
  connect* retrieves connect, connection, connectivity, etc.
• # (pound sign): Replaces one character in a search.
  wom#n retrieves woman and women.
• ? (question mark): replaces 0 to 9 unknown characters in a search term.
  encyclop?dia retrieves encyclopedia and encyclopaedia.

Other tips

• Braces {..} and square brackets [..] are ignored in your search. A slash / in your search terms, however, is taken into account.
• It is possible to search for a molecular formula such as CH3CH2OH.