Sherwood Search Engine Help

The Sherwood Search Engine supports a variety of search methods based upon Query Language.   Each query, or search request, is comprised of the word or words you are seeking, and optionally, one or more Boolean operators.  These operators include: AND, OR and NOT.  Additionally, you may include the wildcard operator *.

By combining search words and operators into an expression, you may quickly locate the information you desire.  You may also use parentheses to define more complex expressions.  Below are some examples of queries and their associated results.

information retrieval

finds documents containing information or retrieval

 

information or retrieval

same as above

 

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both information and retrieval

 

information not retrieval

finds documents containing information but not retrieval

 

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing WAIS, plus information but not retrieval

 

web*

finds documents containing words starting with web