Search Tips

Enter one or more words in the Search Box and click on Search.

The search looks for descriptions of resources that contain all the words that you are looking for. Words are searched for in the title and description fields of the resource, as well as in the MeSH and ANRF keywords that are used to index each resource (and which are not publicly visible). 

For example, if you type in: smoking statistics, you will find records that contain the terms: statistics AND smoking.

Phrase Search

Boolean Search

• AND
  

  The AND operator instructs the search engine to find records containing all of the search terms specified in a given field, e.g. youth AND tobacco.  Brackets may be used to produce more specific queries. e.g. (youth OR adolescent) AND cessation. 

• OR
  

  The OR operator instructs the search engine to find records containing any of the search terms, this is especially useful if you are searching for synonyms or words with similar meanings, e.g. advertising OR marketing
  
  

• NOT
  
  

  The NOT operator allows you to exclude a specific term, e.g. cancer NOT lung