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There are several ways to access information from an online Kleinrock Product that offers a Search Interface. The Search Interface provides the ability to:

Perform a Basic Search
Retrieve a Specific Document
Browse for Documents(s)
Perform an Advanced Search
—Advanced Search Methods

Perform a Basic Search

Starting from the Search Page:
  1. Select a Library from the Step One Column drop-down list.
  2. Input your search criteria in the Step Two Column Search Words field.
  3. Click the corresponding Go button.
  4. To view the desired document, Click on the document title.
  5. To highlight your search term within the document, re-enter the term using the Find feature under your Web browser's Edit menu (or use the CTRL+F shortcut). The 'Find Next' button on the same tool will allow you to move to the next occurrence of the term in the document.
Retrieve a Specific Document

Starting from the Search Page:
  1. Select a Library from the Step One Column drop-down list.
  2. Input the document number in the Step Two Column Enter Document to Retreive field.
  3. Click the corresponding Go button.
If one document matched your search, it will automatically be displayed. If more than one document matched your search, a list of documents will be displayed; click on the document title to view the desired document.

Browse for Documents

Starting from the Search Page:
  1. Select a Library from the Step One Column drop-down list.
  2. Click the Browse button from the Step Two Column.
  3. To view a document from the list, Click the document title.
Perform an Advanced Search

Starting from the Search Page:
  1. Click the Go button in the Advanced Search Column.
  2. Enter your search criteria in the Search Words field.
  3. Select the desired Advanced Search Method (see below).
  4. Indicate which Libraries you would like to search.
  5. Click the Go button.
Advanced Search Methods

Phrase:

This option will search for the contents of the Search Words field. Only documents that contain the exact string of search words will appear in the search results.

Within 25 words:

This option will search for the contents of the Enter Search Words field. Only documents that contain all of the contents of the Search Words field with 25 words of each other will appear in the search results.

Enter own syntax:

This option will allow you to enter your own search parameters in the Search Words field using the following operators. These operators will not work with the "Phrase" or "Within 25 words" choices.


Operator

Description

Examples

AND
&

Finds documents that contain all of the specified words.

home & office
home and office

Either example finds only the documents containing both "home" and "office."

NEAR((term1,term2,...),N)

Finds documents in which two or more words are within N number of words from each other. N can be any integer up to 1000.

NEAR((stock,purchase),3)

This example finds documents containing the words "stock" and "purchase" where the terms are within 3 words of each other.

NOT
~

Finds documents that contain one query term and not another.

option not stock
option ~stock

Finds documents containing "option" but not the word "stock".

OR
|

Finds any document that contains at least one of the search words.

deduction|credit
deduction or credit

Finds documents containing either "deduction" or "credit".

%

A wildcard; specifies 0 or more characters

air%

Examples of results could be: "air", "airline", and "airhead".

_

A wildcard; specifies 1 character. More than one "_" may be used to specify multiple wildcard characters.

_at

Examples of results could include: "hat" and "cat".

__at

Examples of results could include: "that" and "chat".
 
 

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