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Publication Search
Please select the type of publication you wish to search and then fill in the related drop down boxes to narrow your search (not all of the drop down boxes are needed to perform a basic, broad search). A Text Search is optional as well, but can assist in greatly narrowing your results.
When all of your selections are chosen, click on the search button to display the results. Below is a table which shows some helpful search tips to let you more efficiently use this site's database of information when using a Text Search.
Search Syntax
| Operator |
Symbol |
Description |
Example Expression |
| AND |
& |
Use the AND operator to search for documents that
contain at least one occurrence of each of the query terms.
Score returned is
the minimum of the operands. |
'fuel AND filter'
'fuel & filter' |
| OR |
| |
Use the OR operator to search for documents
that contain at least one occurrence of any of the query terms.
Score returned is
the maximum of the
operands. |
'fuel | filter'
'fuel OR filter' |
| NOT |
~ |
Use the NOT operator to search for
documents that contain one query term and not another. |
To obtain the documents that contain the
term filters but not fuel, use the following expression:
'filters ~ fuel' |
| ACCUM |
, |
Use the ACCUM operator to search for
documents that contain at least one occurrence of any of the query terms. The
accumulate operator ranks documents according to the total term weight of a document. |
The following query returns all documents
that contain the terms fuel, filter and oil giving the highest scores to the
documents that contain all three terms:
'fuel, filter, oil' |
| EQUIV |
= |
Use the EQUIV operator to specify an acceptable
substitution for a word in a query. |
The following example returns all documents
that contain either the phrase replacing fuel pump or fixing fuel pump:
'replacing
fuel pump=fixing fuel pump' |
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