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Wildcard characters and other special characters you can use are:
Example | Retrieves |
neuro?pharmacology | neuropharmacology, neuropsychopharmacology |
h?ematology | hematology or haematology |
?clinic | clinic, polyclinic, multiclinic, teleclinic, etc. |
clinic? | clinic, clinics, clinical, clinician, clinicians, etc. |
Note: the asterisk is not available as a wildcard in LocatorPlus because it is used in Voyager to increase the relevance of a term. The question mark wildcard does not work in Z39.50 searches of LocatorPlus.
Example | Retrieves |
wom%n | woman or women |
clinic% | clinics, clinica, clinico, etc. |
clinic%%% | clinician, clinicals, etc. |
Note: the percent sign wildcard does not work in Z39.50.
Example of Keyword Anywhere search using several special characters:
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/wildcards.html
Last reviewed: 23 February 2009
Last updated: 14 February 2008
First published: 22 February 2007
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