The SourceFinder

Query Language

The search engine used to retrieve information from the SourceFinder Database allows queries to be formed from expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and AND NOT. Here are some examples:

Search examples of the following terms:
"form"
finds records containing the letter sequence 'form' . . . which may be part of longer words like 'information'
"information, retrieval"
finds records containing 'information' or 'retrieval'
"information or retrieval"
same as above
information and retrieval
finds records containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'
"information and not retrieval"
finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'