Find Any Word:

Just type one or more keywords to retrieve items with any of those words. When entering multiple words, this is equivalent to using the Boolean operator OR between the terms.

Example
Query: Sustainable development
Searches for: Items with the term "sustainable" or the term "development"

Exact Phrase:

You can search for exact phrases by surrounding them in double quotes. The search engine will only list cases where the characters between the quotation marks are identical.

Examples
Query: "Sustainable development"
Searches for: Items with the phrase "sustainable development" in that order

Query: "Hancock, John" Searches for: "Hancock, John" but not "John Hancock"

Searching with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT, ( ) )

Use Boolean operators to limit or expand your search.

AND between two terms returns items that contain both of the terms. OR between two terms returns items that contain either or both of the terms. NOT between two terms returns items that contain the first term but not the second. ( ) around an expression requires it to be evaluated before combining any Boolean operators outside the parentheses.

Examples
Query: “Sustainable” and “development”
Searches for: Items containing both of the terms sustainable and development

Query: “Sustainable” or “development”
Searches for: Items with the term "sustainable" or the term "development"

Query: “Sustainable” not “development”
Searches for: Items with the term "sustainable" but not the term "development"

Query: (“Sustainable” or “sustainably”) not “development”
Searches for: Items with the terms "sustainable" or "sustainably" but not the term "development"