AgeLine Search Tips

What is being searched? AgeLine searches for a match or near-match of your search word(s) in the item's title, subjects, summary, journal/magazine title, and/or author.
Example: depression after stroke

Multiple concepts or synonyms: Separate each topic with a semicolon (;), which operates as a Boolean OR. Alternatively, you may connect several concepts with OR by using Advanced Search.
Example: depression after stroke; post-stroke depression

Use quotation marks for exact match, or use Advanced Search and select "exact match" from the "How to Join Multiple Words" drop-down box.
Example: "estate planning"

Automatic truncation: To account for word variations such as plural forms, most words are automatically truncated at either the 5th, 6th, or 7th characters, depending on the length of the word.
Example: vacations is searched as vacatio* to retrieve vacation, vacations, vacationers, etc.

User-defined truncation: You may insert your own truncation commands, using a question mark (?) to represent one character and an asterisk (*) to represent one or more characters.
Example: colo?r blind* retrieves color blind, colour blind, color blindness, colour blindness, etc.

Refining your search: Use Advanced Search to restrict your search to a particular element, such as an author or year range, or to perform more advanced Boolean searching.