Advanced search examples

All examples were run against the CESSDA Data Catalogue at a point in time when there were 27,968 English records present in the catalogue.

Simple search

house - 9,067 results

garden - 322 results

AND search

house + garden - 165 results

which is equivalent to house garden, as searching for multiple terms uses AND by default.

OR search

house | garden - 9105 results

which of course is equivalent to garden | house.

NOT search

elections + -presidential - 139 results

Phrase search

"garden house" - 3 results

"house garden" - 26 results

Truncated search

ho* - 19,547 results

hou* - 13,444 results

hous* - 12,698 results

Parenthesis search

(garden room) | (garden house) - 0 results

((garden room) | (garden house) | house) - 9,068 results

((garden room) | (garden house) | social) - 23,166 results