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July 2008
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SEARCHING THE MA WEBSITE Results will come up on the Search Results page with the most relevant articles to your search criteria displayed first. There are a number of ways to use the search function: Example: You wish to find an article about a Specific Museum in London
Note: A word is any string of consecutive characters without a space, such as: Museums Museums-Association Museum26 Museums.Association.website M.GHJ-78987, MA-HP-WP
Note: A phrase is anything enclosed in double quotation marks, such as: "Museums Association seminars" "MA seminars in June" "MA website, a useful resource" "MA seminars 10.6.03"
OR - will find records containing A or B, or both AND - will find records containing A and B AND NOT - will exlude records containing C from search list A, B and not C If you want to remove the special meaning of a key word and search for either OR or AND then you can: - put the word in double quotation marks - e.g. "and" "or" - put a backslash in front of it - e.g.. and or The search engine will then include AND or OR in its search SPECIAL CHARACTERS AND BACKSLASHES Special characters, including double quotation marks, can be included in a word or phrase, represented by a backslash. e.g. E=MC This tells the search engine to look for this word with a special character at the end (or at the beginning or in the middle, depending on where you position the backslash) A literal backslash is represented by typing a double backslash e.g. eitheror WILDCARDS If you are not certain of the spelling of a word then you can use wildcard characters to indicate unknown elements.
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