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Truncation *
Added to the stem of a word, a truncation symbol * will find that
stem
plus anything that comes after it.
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market*
will return
records on market, marketing, markets.
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pig*
will return
records on pig, pigment, pigmentation, pigments, pigskin, pigtails
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advertis*
will return
records on advertise, advertised, advertising, advertisement,
advertisements.
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* is the truncation
symbol,
for example, in CSN's Proquest and Ebsco databases and in
the Thomson-Gale
Literature Resource
Center. The CSN Library Catalog needs no truncation
symbol for Author, Title or Subject searchs -- it happens
automatically: "Hem" will return: Hem, John and Hemingway, Ernest. However,
you can use * in a CSN Library
Catalog Keyword search.
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Wildcards ?
Wildcard symbols inserted within a word will retrieve word
variants. |
wom?n
will return records on woman or women.
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organi?e
will return
records on organize or organise. |
rec??ve
will return records on receive--handy if you're not sure how to spell
it!
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? will replace any ONE letter. It also
works in the CSN's databases mentioned above and in a CSN Library Catalog
Keyword search.
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