General Tips for Searching Summit
Alphabetic
characters are
searched without regard for upper or lower case.
Examples:
- Learning
XML = learning xml
- Hewitt,
D = hewitt d
Punctuation and
special characters:
Examples:
- &
is automatically translated to "and" regardless of language.
artists & enemies translates to artists and
enemies
rouge & noir translates to rouge and noir
- These
special characters are ignored in searching: ' , " ( )
O'Malley = omalley
- Special
characters that translate to a space: - / . * $ ! @ # % +
pro-musica = pro musica
yes/no = yes no
red+b = red b
note: special characters are treated
differently in Advanced Keyword searching, see separate
instructions
Spelling varies. Try all variations.
Misspelled words affect your search results. Check your spelling.
Examples:
- theatre and theater
- labor and labour
Wildcarding
(Truncation).
1. Summit can retrieve
citations that match or exceed the characters you key.
Examples:
- Phrase
indexes (heading searches, such as Author, Title, Subject):
teach retrieves --> teach, teachable, teacher,
teachers, teaching
Gena retrieves --> Gena, Genadiev, Genaille,
Genant, etc.
- Keyword
search: Place an asterisk (*) at the end of a character string to retrieve
various word endings.
femin* retrieves --> feminine, feminist,
feminists, femininity, etc.
2. Or, you can limit the
results to retrieve no more than what you keyed by using a vertical bar |
Examples:
- add
the vertical bar |
pine | retrieves
--> pine, and not pineal, pineapple, pinero, pines, pinezhskaia
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