Basic Search Tips

Tips:

• Each word is looked for independently. So a search for baseball football returns items that match both words anywhere in the item. This is the same as searching for baseball AND football.
• Do not use the articles a, an, or the.
• Searches are case insensitive.
• With the exception of the hyphen, do not use punctuation marks (slashes, commas, and so forth). Punctuation marks may return erroneous results. This also applies to monetary amounts: leave out any commas or periods: use 10000 instead of $10,000.
• Use double quotes to search for an exact phrase. "baseball football" returns only items with those two words in sequence.
• baseball OR football returns items with either or both words.
• baseball NOT football returns items containing baseball but not containing football.
• bas* returns items with words that start with bas, such as baseball and basket.
• (gene w/2 mouse) OR "mouse genome" returns items that have the word gene within two words of the word mouse or that contain the exact phrase mouse genome.