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Searching is easy. Just type in a few words or phrases. Try to use discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek. The more words you give, the better results you'll get. Here are some examples:

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The search engine will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible ranked so that the documents most relevant to your query are presented first.

Identify phrases with quotation marks.

"financial aid", "student loans"

A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, allowing the user to find words which are adjacent to each other. Each phrase or proper name should be separated with a comma.

Use UPPERcase to indicate exact match.

The search engine automatically treats adjacent capitalized words as a single phrase. Below is an example:

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Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case; otherwise, an exact case match is used. For example, oeri will find matches for Oeri, oeri, and oeRI; whereas, a query for OERI will only match OERI.

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Last update June 18, 2003