Using the GEM (Seamark) search engine's advanced search features including spell check, wild cards, and boolean operators (AND, OR, & NOT).
Advanced search
GEM/Seamark uses the Apache Group's Lucene text search engine for free text searching. As a result, the text search syntax is the same as that supported by Lucene, except that Seamark text search queries are boolean AND queries by default. For example, a search for "Great Expectations" (minus the quotes) will only return items that match both the words "Great" AND "Expectations" as opposed to either one alone. A search for "Great Expectations" and "Expectatations Great" will retrieve the same resources.
| Search Type | Query | Description |
| Wildcard queries: | Quer* | Use the asterisk '*' character for wildcard searches; e.g., "Quer*" will match the terms "Question" and "Query". Note that you cannot place the asterisk at the start of a query term. |
| Misspellings: | dictoinary~ | Use the tilde '~' character to check for misspellings, e.g., "dictoinary~" will match the term "dictionary" |
| Boolean searches: | dictionary OR thesaurus NOT encyclopedia | Use AND, OR, NOT to modify your query. You may also use the prefixes '+' or '-' as replacements for AND and NOT, respectively. |
| Phrase queries: | "Encyclopedia Britannica" NOT dictionary | Use quotation marks to require that terms appear together in the result set. |
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