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.
⚠ AND, OR, NOT must be written in upper case.
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". 🔗 Find the list of search operators here.
You can also use the assisted search to conduct an advanced search without having to write the operators. 🔗Assisted search
🔗 Further reading: All about the search tool 🔍
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