- Enter or the word or words you wish to search on and press the search button. You will see a list of links which contain your search term. By clicking on a link within that list you will be taken to the web site containing the source document.
- Searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case
- Use
"quotation marks"to surround phrases, making sure that the words you search for are found together - Use a hyphen immediately before a word or phrase to exclude it, eg.
-word - Use
ORbetween words or phrases if you are looking for items which have either. TheORapplies only to the word/phrase on either side, eg.black cat OR kittenwill find items that include cat and also contain either cat or kitten. - An asterisk (
*) can be used inside a phrase as a wildcard word, eg."I like * in the morning"will match I like coffee in the morning and I like tea in the morning, among others. - Include synonyms of a word by preceding it with a tilde (
~) eg.~best "board game"also uses words like top and greatest in addition to best. - Use two periods between numbers to find any number in that range, eg.
beagle 1800..1900will find pages that refer to the voyage of the HMS Beagle that Charles Darwin was on, as the boat sailed within that time range. - Uses AND operator by default, if more than one query word is used, it finds pages that include all the query words.
- Common words and characters such as “where” and “how”, as well as certain single digits and single letters, have been removed because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results.
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