Combining
Search Terms in the Basic Search
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The
Basic Search provides a search form with a single input field, with which you
can search through the categories Author, Title, and Chapter Headings. The Advanced
Search offers more detailed search possibilities.
Search
Click
Basic Search in the blue menu bar to
open the search form.
Enter one or more search terms in the input field.
AND,
OR and NOT can be used for combining
search terms. When no operator is used to combine search terms, they are
automatically combined with AND.
Enclose
search terms in quotation marks to perform a phrase
search i.e. when searching specifically for a
passage in which the words occur in the order entered.
Use
wildcard
characters – a question mark for a single letter
or an asterisk for any number of letters – if you wish to include variations
of a word in the search.
Having
entered a search query, start the search by clicking the Search button.
After
starting a search
a
list of search results will appear, if more than one document has been
found;
the
work will be displayed – the title page will appear – if only one
document was found;
a
message will appear if no result was attained.
To
display a document, click
the title in the list of search results. In addition, you can call up the
complete bibliographical details of a work or its electronic table of contents
from the list of search results.
Deleting
Search Queries
All
entries in the search form can be deleted using the button Clear
Form.
Saving
Search Queries
Search
queries are automatically saved as soon as a search term is entered in a search
form and submitted by clicking the button Search. Using the function Previous
Searches, former searches can be repeated or
entered in the search form again and altered.
Combining
Search Terms in the Basic Search
Wildcard
Characters
in the Basic Search