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Search Basics

The Office of Administrative Law Judges uses Verity search software. The following is a brief overview of the most basic search operators available for use in Verity. See the Search Tips Manual for more detail and information on other search operators and strategies.

BASIC OPERATORS: AND, OR, NOT Sample: repetitive AND stress NOT disorder searches for documents with the words repetitive and stress, but not disorder Note: use commas as alternative to the OR operator Sample: repetitive, stress, disorder searches for documents with the words repetitive or stress or disorder

PROXIMITY SEARCH OPERATORS: <PARAGRAPH>, <SENTENCE>, <NEAR>, <NEAR/N> Sample: repetitive <NEAR/3> disorder searches for documents with the word repetitive within three words of disorder Note: These operators require that you place angle brackets ( < > ) around the operator

EXACT WORD OR PHRASE: use quotation marks Sample: "repetitive stress disorder" searches for the exact phrase repetitive stress disorder Sample: "stress" searches for the word stress, and will not return stresses or other stemmed variations Note: Verity interprets as string of words as a request for a search for a phrase Sample: repetitive stress disorder searches for the phrase, but will also search for stemmed variations (e.g., stress and stresses)

WILDCARDS: *, ? Sample: disabl* Searches for any word starting with the letters disabl Sample: fl??ss search finds pages that contain, for example, either Fleiss or Fliess.

RESERVED CHARACTERS: , ( ) [ = > < ! ‘ @ ` < { [ ! The characters above are used by the search software. Thus, to search for a string tha contains one of these characters, precede the character with a backslash. Sample: rick\'s cafe Searches for Rick's cafe