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Sample Searches:
| affordable care act AND seniors |
Use AND between two or more terms to find materials with all the terms. Searching for affordable care act AND seniors will only include books that have both affordable care act and seniors in their contents.
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| HIPAA OR Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
Use OR between similar terms. Searching for HIPAA OR health insurance portability and accountability act change will find books that refer to either term.
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| "affordable care act" |
Use quotation marks ( " " ) around specific phrases such as "affordable care act" to find the words in that specific order.
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| bacteri* |
Use an asterisk ( * ) to find multiple endings of one word. Using bacteri* as a search term will include results that refer to bacteria, bacterium, and bacterial. |
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