Definition

• Relevance searching enables the search of controlled indexes of fields or the entire article content. You specify by clicking into the appropriate radio button.
• It searches for words and/or phrases plus:
  • Their variants.
  • Synonymous or related terms and/or phrases.
• Consequently, you increase your recall, but you may lose some degree of precision.
• Note that you can NOT s use proximity operators in Relevance Search mode.

Search Functions that you can use in Relevance Searching

• + (plus) - This requires that any document that contains the word or phrase following the plus must appear in returned records.
  EXAMPLE: +"united nations"
• - (minus) - This requires that any record must be excluded and not returned if it contains the word or phrase following the minus.
  EXAMPLE: -Tasmania
• " " (double quotes) - These enclose any phrase for search as a phrase and not on the individual words. for phrase searching)
  EXAMPLES: " shoes of the fisherman" " william hartnell" " arcyria cinerea "

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