SEARCH LOGIC Wildcard Searches Wildcard searching allows you to widen a search on a textual or name field by including a truncation symbol (* or ?) in your search term. The * symbol is used to match any number of characters and the ? symbol is used to match a single character. Examples of truncation: >Searching for variants of words, for example BEACH* to find Beachball, Beachams, etc. >Searching for words with different spellings, for example COL*R for colour and color.. >Searching for titles with ISBN prefix, for example 07139*. >Searching for a word where a single character may vary, for example WOM?N to find woman and women; fertili?er to find fertiliser and fertilizer. Single Word searches >Finding single word titles can be difficult, especially if the title is also a common word. Put the pipe symbol ( | ) round your search term and the single word will be found. >For example, |boy| will find the title "Boy" but not "101 Things for a Boy to Make". . >You can also use it to find an exact match of more than one word, for example |The War of the Worlds| will return titles where the title is only The War of the Worlds and exclude titles with other words in the title. Phrase Searches >Sometimes you'll only want results that include a phrase. In this case, simply put quotation marks around your search terms. For example a title search for “Nuclear fuel” will include titles were these words adjacent to each other eg. “The International Nuclear Fuel Market” but not “Nuclear Energy and its Fuel Cycle”. >For example, |boy| will find the title "Boy" but not "101 Things for a Boy to Make". . >To find the exact match of a phrase or word put the pipe symbol (|) around your search terms, for example |The War of the Worlds| will return titles where the title is only The War of the Worlds and exclude titles with any other words in the title. Search Term Nesting >Using brackets you may nest search terms to ensure that they are evaluated in the order you require. For example the search GREEN OR RED AND BLACK will first locate the records with GREEN or RED and then select those that contain BLACK. Whereas the search GREEN OR (RED AND BLACK) locate the records that contain both RED and BLACK and also include any records containing GREEN. >You may have more than one set of brackets in a search. For example (GREEN AND BLUE) OR (RED AND BLACK) You may nest sets of brackets. For example (GREEN AND (BLUE OR RED OR BLACK)) NOT YELLOW.