Search in SND’s collection by specifying a search words. It is possible to search in all metadata fields.
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A search for election data is equivalent to election + data. (AND-search)
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A search for election | data will give results matching election OR data. (OR-search)
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Add a + in front of words and phrases that must occur. +newspaper read means
the text must include the word newspaper and may include the word read.
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Add a - in front of words and phrases that should not occur in the text.
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Use a wildcard (*) like news* to specify unknown number of characters after the word.
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If you want to search for a phrase (multiple words), use quotes: "election manifestos".
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You can also do a proximity search. "read newspaper"~10 means that the
words "read" and "newspaper" must occur within 10 words of each other.
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For a fuzzy search (words similar to the search term), add a tilde plus 'N' (~N) character at the end,
as in newspaper~5 where N signifies edit distance (fuzzines).
Leading wildcard characters (*,?, and ~) as well as leading periods is not supported and will be ignored.
