The search above would retrieve items with green and gables in the title but not with montgomery as an author. Phrase Searching Top Phrase searching is performed by using quotation marks. The search would find items with the phrase Joseph Brant in the title. Similarly, compound words such as mid-wife and phrases such as Eric the Red should be contained within quotation marks. Truncation Top Truncation in resAnet involves the shortening of a word with the use of a symbol to represent an unlimited number of characters at the end of a word.
Truncation is used when one wishes to find variants of a word.
The question mark is used to truncate words. The search would find items with variant endings of the word e.g. rebellion, rebellions, rebellious, rebelliousness in the title. Wild Cards Top Wild Cards are symbols which represent a single character in search string. As with truncation they may also represent no character. The search above would retrieve items with the Canadian spelling of neighbour as well as the American neighbor .