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Use the Search field (above, to the left) to search for documents in this website containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed.

Note that Searches made from Public pages will search only the Public areas of the website. Searches made from Private Members' Area pages will search the entire website (Public Pages, Private Members' Area pages, and the Member Directory).

For a brief explanation of the Verity Query Language, please refer to the Quick Hints Guide listed below.

Quick Hints on Query Language

Entering mixed case search terms (mixed upper and lower case) will result in a case sensitive search. Entering all upper or all lower case search terms will result in a case-insensitive search.

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

information retrieval
finds documents containing 'information retrieval'

information or retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information and retrieval
finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information and not retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information and not retrieval) and Verity
finds documents containing 'Verity', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*
finds documents containing words starting with 'web'.