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Search Tips
Use these symbols to refine your search or see our brochure for help
* - The wildcard is used with a search
word that has different spellings or endings.
volunt* -- will find volunteer, volunteering, volunteerism; fund*
retrieves fund, funds, fundraising, etc.
“ ” - Quotation marks around a phrase will
find that exact order of words in an item description.
“program planning” OR "Statistics on volunteering"
! - the NOT symbol removes a common word you do not want.
Charities ! tax -- retrieves items with charities but NOT tax (greater
precision)
/ - The OR symbol substitutes one like term for another.
non profit / nonprofit -- retrieves items with EITHER term (broadens
results)
> < - the date searches can limit
further [>, <, =]
>2000 -- retrieves everything published after 2000 (greater than
2000)