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Getting started
You can start your search by entering keywords into the search box. Both bibliographical details and full-text documents will be searched. In addition to the search results, several refining options are displayed which enable you to quickly find what you're looking for.

 

Display of search results
A typical display of a search result will look like this:

Click on the title to directly access the publication or click on the grey arrow for additional bibliographic information.

 

Additional options

= print title details
 = report broken link
  = bookmarking and sharing options

 

Refining options
You can quickly refine your results by clicking on one of the refine options displayed in the column left of the search results. You can refine by topic, resource type, year of publication, region, keyword or author.

 

Sorting options
Depending on the type of resources in the results list, you can choose to sort by date of addition, author/organization, resource type, title, year of publication or relevance. You can select a sort option from the drop-down menu displayed above the search results.

 

Boolean and Google-like searching

Examples:
poverty AND (alleviation OR reduction)
+poverty +alleviation –urban

By default, typing word1 word2, will result in word1 AND word2

If you use different operators in your search, you should use parentheses to specify the order of precedence, as in: poverty AND (alleviation OR reduction)

 

Truncation / wildcards

 

Phrase search
Use quotes for phrase search, as in: "poverty alleviation".

 

Proximity search

 

Field search

Always use lowercase for field labels in your query.

Use phrase search for keywords that consist of multiple terms.

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