HIGHLIGHTS

• Some searches allow you to use a truncation symbol (also known as a wildcard) with a word or phrase.

• Use truncation in Keyword (Relevance) and Keyword (Boolean) searches on the Basic Search Screen, and all searches on the Custom Search Screen.

• behav? finds behave, behaving, behavior, behavioral
• "school district?" finds school district, school districts

Use ? within words to represent zero or more wildcard characters:

• behavi?r finds behavior, behaviour
• wom?n finds woman, women, womyn

Use ? at the beginning of a word to represent zero or more wildcard characters (using the wildcard at the beginning of a search term may slow the search):

• ?sexuality finds sexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality
• ?konomische (German example) finds ökonomische, oekonomische, sozialökonomische (and other sub-fields of economics)