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To
combine search terms in the Basic Search the Boolean operators AND,
OR, NOT can be used.
Note: The operators AND, OR, and NOT must be entered in English using capital letters.
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AND |
Finds documents containing all of the search terms joined with AND |
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OR |
Finds documents containing at least one of the search terms joined by OR |
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NOT |
Finds documents containing the search term preceding NOT but not containing the search term following NOT |
When more than one search term is entered without a combination operator, the
search terms are automatically joined with AND.
Example:
Basic
Search: Wittenberg
Sachsen
Results:
Works found contain both search terms, regardless of whether both terms
occur in the same or in different categories (Author, Title, Chapter Headings).
Use
the combination operator OR when searching for documents containing at
least one of the search terms.
Basic
Search:
Wittenberg OR Sachsen
Results:
Works found contain one of these search terms in the categories Author,
Title or Chapter Headings.
Use
the operator NOT in order to exclude specific terms.
Basic
Search: Wittenberg
NOT Sachsen
Results:
Works found contain the term Wittenberg but not
the term Sachsen in the categories Author, Title or Chapter Headings.
A
phrase consists of several words enclosed in quotation marks, designating a
prescribed expression
or a specified word order.
Thus a phrase search will only find records containing the search terms
occurring in the order in which they were entered.
Example:
Basic
Search:
"der deutschen Sprache"
Results:
Works found contain
this expression in
the categories Author, Title or Chapter Headings.
Basic
Search: "Mendelssohn
Moses" OR "Moses Mendelssohn"
Results:
Works found contain at least one of these phrases in the categories
Author, Title or Chapter Headings; including all works by Mendelssohn, because
the name is recorded as "Mendelssohn Moses" in the category Author.
Wildcard
Characters in the Basic Search