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More words will increase the number of search results. But documents containing all of the words entered will be ranked highest.
Example: kid teacher history learn
Enclose Exact Phrases in Quotes
The results will include documents containing those words in that exact order.
Examples: "civil war maps" "jackie robinson" "declaration of independence"
Use a Plus Sign to Require and a Minus Sign to Exclude
Example: +washington +state -george
Retrieves documents containing the words "state" and "washington" but not "george."
Capitalize Proper Nouns
Example: Library Congress
Only finds documents containing "Library" and "Congress" (but not "library" and "congress").
Try Alternate Spellings
Some proper names and common words have variant spellings (British vs. American or because of transliteration differences). Include all known spellings for the broadest search results.
Examples: Mohammad Muhammad Mohammed labor labour