Phrase searches
Multiple keywords are always searched first as a phrase and then as single words withincatalogue records: See Understanding and sorting your search results.
aboriginal land rights will be searched first as a phrase and then as single words; aboriginal and land and rights.
Using connectors
AND
Combining keywords with AND results in a list of records that contain ALL the keywords, in any field in the catalogue record and bypasses phrase searching.
fish and disease and pathogens will find records where all these words appear in any field in the catalogue record.
Typing fish disease pathogens (without the joining and) will find the same records but the relevance of the results will be sorted differently because in this case the words will have been searched as a phrase first and then singly.
OR
Combining keywords with OR will result in a list of records that may contain ANY one of the keywords you typed, in any field in the catalogue record. This operator is useful for searching on synonyms or to broaden your search result.
gst or value added tax
deaf or hearing impaired
hayfever or hay fever
Truncation
Search words may be right-hand truncated using asterisks. The asterisks must be preceded by at least two characters.
(*) A single asterisk for up to 5 characters in the middle or at the end of a word.
(**) Two asterisks for an unlimited number of characters at the end of a word.
arch* will find arches,archetype, archive
arch** will find archaeology, architecture
anders*n will find anderson, andersen
