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Industrial and Systems Engineering: Finding Information

Finding Information

To search for a phrase, place it in quotation marks.

Examples:

 
"united states" 
"sociable robot"
"skin engineering"
"3D printing"

 

To search for variants of a words, use wildcards.

To vary a single letter in the middle of a word, use the question mark [?]

tr?mpet* = trumpet and trompete

To catch variant spellings of a person's name, use the tilde [~]

Rachmaninoff~ = Rachmaninov, Rachmaninof, etc.

To allow for variant endings of a word, use the asterisk [*]

accompan* = accompaniment, accompanist, accompany, etc.)

To retrieve results that include ALL of your search terms, use AND. 

biosythesis AND cells

To retrieve results that include any of your search terms, use OR. 

"tissue engineering" OR "skin therapy" 

To eliminate results that contain a term, use NOT.

tissue engineering NOT 3D printing

4. To write a highly focused search string, use AND, NOT, OR, and parentheses (and a few other search techniques).

(biosynth* OR fabric*) AND ("tissue engineering" OR "skin therapy") NOT 3D print*

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Subjects: Engineering