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Indexed search

> With indexed search, you can find any words in a Biblioscape database. Although indexed can not limit search to a certain data field, there are several ways to make an indexed search very powerful.

> * | Multi-character wildcard. "analog*" will find "analogs", "analogues", etc.
> ? | Single character wildcard. "h?v" will find "HIV", "HOV", etc.
> AND | Satisfy both conditions. "nucleoside AND cancer" will find records that have both words "nucleoside" and "cancer".
> OR | Satisfy one of the conditions. "nucleoside OR hiv" will find records that have word "nucleoside", or "cancer", or both of them.
> NOT | Not satisfy a condition. "synthesis AND NOT nucleoside" will find records that have word "synthesis" but does not have word "nucleoside".
> LIKE | Sounds like. "LIKE isak" will find records with words that sounds like "isak".
> NEAR | Appear closely together within 8 words. "nucleoside NEAR synthesis" will find records that have words "nucleoside" and "synthesis" near each together.
> "..." | Specify a phrase. For example: "boronic acid" AND cancer
> (...) | Specify search precedence. For example: (nucleoside AND cancer) AND NOT 1990

Advanced search

> Advanced search can let you do a more refined search. For example, you can specify a query to find all records that are published after "1990" by "Smith".

> "_" wildcard character matches any single character. "%" matches any sequence of zero or more characters. It is not necessary to use "%" wildcard at the beginning and end of a query.

> For Integer field like "Year" and "Reference ID", you can use ">", "<", "between" condition. For example:
> Year > 1990
> Year between 1990 and 1994

> For data fields like "Date", "Date of Input", "Date Modified", date in ANSI format (yyyy-mm-dd) has to be used and it has to be inside a single quote. You can use ">", "<", "between" condition. For example:
> Date of Input < '1999-09-12'
> Date of Input between '1998-12-04' and '1999-03-21'