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Boolean in Readex
- AND
- Search two terms together
- OR
- Searches one or the other
- NOT
- Excludes results with this term
- NOT Charleston
- note: you may accidentally lose relevant results. Best to limit NOT commands to the Headline field
- NEAR#
- searches two terms within # proximity of each other. Order doesn't matter.
- slave NEAR15 revolt will only return results in which these terms are 15 words apart
- ADJ#
- Search two terms within # words apart, in the given order
- François ADJ3 Louverture will bring up François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, François Toussaint Louverture, and François Louverture
- QUOTATION MARKS
- searches as a phrase
- "Saint Domingue" only brings up articles where the terms are next to each other
- note you may miss other spellings like St. Domingue
- ASTERISK *
- covers all forms of a word
- Domin* covers domingue, Domingo, Dominican, Dominic
- note it also gives you false hits. In this case it also gives Dominion, domino, domineer, and others unrelated (I assume) to your intended topic.
- Unlike other databases, Readex lets you put * in the middle of a word
- labo*r will cover labor or labour
- QUESTION MARK ?
- Covers 1 letter only
- Ha?ti will cover both “Haiti” or “Hayti”
- Parentheses ()
- Good for OR searches
- (negro* OR black) AND revolt*
