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Author Searches To search for a person as an author, type the last name followed by part or all of the first name. To search for a government body or organization as an author, type at least the first part of the name. Examples:
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Keyword Searches Use the Boolean operators and, or, and not to combine search terms, and use parentheses to group search terms. Use quotation marks to indicate that terms should be searched as a phrase. Examples:
nigeria and oil (nigeria and oil) not (government or report) "white paper"
Use ? to truncate a search term. For example, a search for mali? retrieves mali, malian, malien, etc.