Advanced search overview โš™๏ธ

Advanced search overview โš™๏ธ

Written by Marie Abraham
Last update: Thursday, May 15, 2025

๐Ÿ‘‰ Make your search results more precise with the explicit operators AND, OR, NOT!

  • All words that must be present are separated by an AND.
    Ex.: to identify all documents that contain both "environment" and "UK":

  • If at least one word from a given list must be present, separate the words in that list with an OR.
    Ex.: France OR UK.

  • If a word should not be present in the search results, precede it with NOT.
    Ex.: environment NOT COP.

โš  AND, OR, NOT must be written in upper case.

Also to be noted:

  • Writing a group of words in quotation marks " will search this exact phrase.

  • Adding parentheses allows you to group words to indicate in which order to execute operations.
    Ex.:

  • By default, the search is conducted in every field of a document. You can restrict the search to one or several fields, such as the title.
    Ex.: title="COP 27". ๐Ÿ”— Find the list of search operators here.

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๐Ÿ‘‰ Refine your searches and save time with search suggestions of named entities (people, organisations and places)

  • When you click on the search bar: Suggests the 10 most cited named entities (people, organisations and places) in AFP and partner production over the last 30 minutes.

  • As soon as you start typing characters: Suggests Auto-completes based on the 10 most cited related named entities (people, organisations and places) (combination of recent and global trends in AFP and partner production).

  • Click on a suggestion to launch a search that includes aliases and equivalents.

๐Ÿ”—More info : All about the search tool ๐Ÿ” Search suggestion

You can also use the assisted search to conduct an advanced search without having to write the operators. ๐Ÿ”—Assisted search

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Written by Thibault FERRAND and Marie Abraham.