Search Tips
BASIC OPERATORS: AND, OR, NOT
Sample: State AND of NOT Florida
searches for documents with the words State and of,
but not Florida
Note: use commas as alternative to the OR operator
Sample: State, of, Florida
searches for documents with the words State or of
or Florida
PROXIMITY SEARCH OPERATORS: <PARAGRAPH>, <SENTENCE>, <NEAR>, <NEAR/N>
Sample: Executive <NEAR/3> power
searches for documents with the word Executive within three
(3)
words of power
Note: These operators require that you place angle brackets ( < > ) around the operator
EXACT WORD OR PHRASE: use quotation marks
Sample: "Speaker of the House"
searches for the exact phrase Speaker of the House
searches for the word govern, and will not return stresses or other stemmed variations
Note: Verity interprets as string of words as a request for a search for a phrase
searches for the phrase, but will also search for stemmed variations (e.g., governs and governing)
WILDCARDS: *, ?
Searches for any word starting with the letters Fl such as Florida or Flag
search finds pages that contain, for example, either Think or
Thank.
RESERVED CHARACTERS: , ( ) [ = > < ! ‘ @ ` < { [ !
The characters above are used by the search software. Thus, to search for a string that contains one of these characters, precede
the character with a backslash.
Searches for Florida's coast
