Back to Help Contents Using the Site Searching Article searches can be performed from two places on the site, on the homepage search field and the Advanced Search Page. The homepage search has the same features as the Article Text Search as described below. To do more detailed searches click on the Advanced Search button from the menu bar. On the Advanced Search Page you can search by the article text, author, article title and date range. Searches are not case-sensitive by default and in most cases search results will be returned ranked by relevance.
Relevance is determined by word density.
A two page article with 6 occurrences of the search term will have a higher relevance score than an eight page article with 6 occurrences of the search term. Article Text Search will search the complete text of the articles. When you enter a word using simple syntax, the search will look for stemmed variations of the word. To use explicit syntax, you can enclose the word in double quotation marks. Its stemmed variations will not be considered.