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Advanced Search Made Easy

UQ News Advanced search offers numerous options for making your searches more precise and getting more useful results. You can use a combination of keywords, category and published date.

Advanced search "operators"

You can also improve your searches by adding "operators" to your search terms in the keywords search box. Advanced search operators include:

• ABOUT search
• ACCUMULATE search
• OR search
• AND search
• NOT search
• WILDCARDS search

"ABOUT" search

Find pages on their theme and not just the words it contain. The search results will retrieve pages that contain concepts that are related to a specific query word or query phrase. You cannot combine ABOUT with any other operator. Example: about(canines) to find pages that are about dogs, alsations, german shepards, etc.

"ACCUMULATE (,)" search

The ACCUMULATE operator is used to find pages that contains at least one occurrence of any of the query terms. Example gatton, birds, wildlife will return pages that contain either gatton, birds or wildlife and the search will assign the highest score to the pages that contain all three terms.

"OR (|)" search

Finds pages containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. Example scholar OR games finds pages with either scholar or games.

"AND (&)" search

Finds pages containing all of the specified words or phrases. Example scholar AND games finds pages with both the word scholar and the word games.

"NOT (~)" search

Excludes pages containing the specified word or phrase. Example scholar NOT games finds pages with scholar but not containing games.

Wildcards search

Wildcard characters can be used in query expressions to expand word searches into pattern searches. Wildcards can only be used at one location in a query. The wildcard characters are:

"%" - The percent wildcard specifies that any characters can appear in multiple positions represented by the wildcard.

"_" - The underscore wildcard specifies a single position in which any character can occur.

Example wo%n would find "Network of entrepreneurs" and "woman".

Example wo_n would find "worn" but not "woman".

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