You may search our web site for all documents containing matching words or patterns. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

nursing profession

finds documents containing 'nursing' or 'profession'
(if nothing else is specified, OR is the default between words)

 

nursing or profession

same as above
(in this case, OR is specified)

 

nursing and profession

finds documents containing both 'nursing' and 'profession'
(in this case, AND is specified)

 

nursing and not profession

finds documents containing 'nursing' but not 'profession'
(in this case, AND NOT is specified)

 

AIDS or (nursing and not profession)

finds documents containing 'AIDS', or
documents containing 'nursing' but not 'profession'
(in this case, brackets force nursing and not profession to be checked together)

 

"nursing profession"

finds documents containing the phrase 'nursing profession'
(in this case, double quote marks indicate that an exact mach of the specified phrase is to be checked for.  The search is not case sensitive and ignores all 'white space' (spaces, hyphens, carriage returns, etc.). The above example will find documents containing 'nursing profession' or 'NURSING Profession' or 'nursing - profession' but will not find documents containing 'nursing as a profession')

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