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Library:OtherPrinting

2026-04-15T18:05:00Z

Robg:

===Other Printing Options===
<ul>
::<li>Various businesses in the University Village (Staples, CopiesMart etc.)</li>
::<li>[https://it.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/Graphic_catalogue.pdf Staff - UBC Studios]. Reports, brochures, journals, motion graphics, presentations, logos and icons, illustrations and infographics, posters and banners, with full graphic design services.</li>

</ul>

[[Category:Computers_and_Technology]]

User:Robg

2026-02-27T18:59:34Z

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Library:Light Therapy Lamps

2026-02-24T19:26:00Z

Robg:

<hr>
Light therapy lamps are one mode of treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), also known as the “winter blues.”

The lamps are designed to mimic spring and summer light levels.

They are used by reading, working or relaxing in front of them for only 20-30 minutes per day.
<hr>
=== '''Location of Lamps''' ===
Light Therapy Lamps are available on a first-come, first-served basis at these Library locations:
* '''[https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-woodward Woodward Library]'''
** Level 2, carrel, use the central stairwell
** Level 3, room 324, use the northeast stairwell

* '''[https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-biomedical Biomedical Branch Library]'''
** First carrel on the left at the entrance

=== '''How to use the Lamps''' ===
* There are sign up sheets at each lamp. Note your name and duration of time.
* Turn the lamp on and sit facing it, reading, working or relaxing.
* You want to be approximately 16 – 20 inches away, and no more than 20-30 minutes a day is all you need.
* The light needs to shine on your eyes, but do not stare directly at the bulb.
* Adjust the angle of the lampshade downward, ensuring that you can still see both tubes.
* Turn the lamp off when you are finished using it to preserve the bulb.

=== '''Need to Know Information''' ===
* Please consult a health-care professional before using the lamp if you have been told you must wear sunglasses in sunlight, have a medical condition including retinal disease, macular degeneration, bipolar disorder or diabetes, or are taking certain medications (including, but not limited to, melatonin, thioridazine or lithium).

* If you are unsure whether using the lamps is [https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002314.htm contraindicated] due to a medical condition or medication you are taking, please consult your doctor first. If you experience any discomfort, immediately stop using the lamp and contact your doctor.

* The use of light therapy lamps should not be viewed as a substitute for seeking medical advice.
* Use of the lamps is at your own discretion.
* The University of British Columbia Library is not liable for any health issues related to use of the light therapy lamps.

=== '''Health and Wellbeing at UBC''' ===
Resources are available for University of British Columbia faculty, students and staff:

* [https://students.ubc.ca/health/ Health and Wellbeing for Students]
* [https://hr.ubc.ca/health-and-wellbeing Health and Wellbeing for Employees]
* [https://wellbeing.ubc.ca/ UBC Wellbeing]

=== '''About Seasonal Affective Disorder''' ===
* [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20364651 Mayo Clinic]

* [https://sad.psychiatry.ubc.ca/ Seasonal Affective Disorder Information], UBC Mood Disorders Centre

* [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2470681 Efficacy of Bright Light Treatment, Fluoxetine, and the Combination in Patients with Nonseasonal Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial]. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(1). 56-63. This study found the use of light therapy for 30 minutes per day improved the overall wellbeing of participants.

* Dr. Raymond Lam has done extensive research on light therapy and has published [https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=4153314 A Clinician’s Guide to Using Light Therapy]
 <hr>
With special thanks to [http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/1187 Susan Parker, University Librarian], and [https://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/408 Lea Starr, Associate University Librarian, Research], for funds to support this initiative, and to [https://northernlighttechnologies.ca/ Northern Light Technologies].

Library:Light Therapy Lamps

2026-02-23T22:55:09Z

Robg:

<hr>
Light therapy lamps are one mode of treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), also known as the “winter blues.”

The lamps are designed to mimic spring and summer light levels.

They are used by reading, working or relaxing in front of them for only 20-30 minutes per day.
<hr>
=== '''Location of Lamps''' ===
Light Therapy Lamps are available on a first-come, first-served basis at these Library locations:
* '''[https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-woodward Woodward Library]'''
** Level 2, carrel, use the central stairwell
** Level 3, room 324, use the northeast stairwell

* '''[https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-biomedical Biomedical Branch Library]'''
** First carrel on the left at the entrance

=== '''How to use the Lamps''' ===
* There are sign up sheets at each lamp. Note your name and duration of time.
* Turn the lamp on and sit facing it, reading, working or relaxing.
* You want to be approximately 16 – 20 inches away, and no more than 20-30 minutes a day is all you need.
* The light needs to shine on your eyes, but do not stare directly at the bulb.
* Adjust the angle of the lampshade downward, ensuring that you can still see both tubes.
* Turn the lamp off when you are finished using it to preserve the bulb.

=== '''Need to Know Information''' ===
* Please consult a health-care professional before using the lamp if you have been told you must wear sunglasses in sunlight, have a medical condition including retinal disease, macular degeneration, bipolar disorder or diabetes, or are taking certain medications (including, but not limited to, melatonin, thioridazine or lithium).

* If you are unsure whether using the lamps is [https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002314.htm contraindicated] due to a medical condition or medication you are taking, please consult your doctor first. If you experience any discomfort, immediately stop using the lamp and contact your doctor.

* The use of light therapy lamps should not be viewed as a substitute for seeking medical advice.
* Use of the lamps is at your own discretion.
* The University of British Columbia Library is not liable for any health issues related to use of the light therapy lamps.

=== '''Health and Wellbeing at UBC''' ===
Resources are available for University of British Columbia faculty, students and staff:

* [https://students.ubc.ca/health/ Health and Wellbeing for Students]
* [https://hr.ubc.ca/health-and-wellbeing Health and Wellbeing for Employees]
* [https://wellbeing.ubc.ca/ UBC Wellbeing]

=== '''About Seasonal Affective Disorder''' ===
* [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20364651 Mayo Clinic]

* UBC research indicates light therapy is also effective for nonseasonal depression (https://sad.psychiatry.ubc.ca/. Lam, R., Levitte, A., & Levitan, R. (2016).

* [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2470681 Efficacy of Bright Light Treatment, Fluoxetine, and the Combination in Patients with Nonseasonal Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial]. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(1). 56-63. This study found the use of light therapy for 30 minutes per day improved the overall wellbeing of participants.

* Dr. Raymond Lam has done extensive research on light therapy and has published [https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=4153314 A Clinician’s Guide to Using Light Therapy]
 <hr>
With special thanks to [http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/1187 Susan Parker, University Librarian], and [https://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/408 Lea Starr, Associate University Librarian, Research], for funds to support this initiative, and to [https://northernlighttechnologies.ca/ Northern Light Technologies].

Library:Light Therapy Lamps

2026-02-23T22:52:51Z

Robg:

<hr>
Light therapy lamps are one mode of treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), also known as the “winter blues.”

The lamps are designed to mimic spring and summer light levels.

They are used by reading, working or relaxing in front of them for only 20-30 minutes per day.
<hr>
=== '''Location of Lamps''' ===
Light Therapy Lamps are available on a first-come, first-served basis at these Library locations:
* '''[https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-woodward Woodward Library]'''
** Level 2, carrel, use the central stairwell
** Level 3, room 324, use the northeast stairwell

* '''[https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-biomedical Biomedical Branch Library]'''
** First carrel on the left at the entrance

=== '''How to use the Lamps''' ===
* There are sign up sheets at each lamp. Note your name and duration of time.
* Turn the lamp on and sit facing it, reading, working or relaxing.
* You want to be approximately 16 – 20 inches away, and no more than 20-30 minutes a day is all you need.
* The light needs to shine on your eyes, but do not stare directly at the bulb.
* Adjust the angle of the lampshade downward, ensuring that you can still see both tubes.
* Turn the lamp off when you are finished using it to preserve the bulb.

=== '''Need to Know Information''' ===
* Please consult a health-care professional before using the lamp if you have been told you must wear sunglasses in sunlight, have a medical condition including retinal disease, macular degeneration, bipolar disorder or diabetes, or are taking certain medications (including, but not limited to, melatonin, thioridazine or lithium).

* If you are unsure whether using the lamps is [https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002314.htm contraindicated] due to a medical condition or medication you are taking, please consult your doctor first. If you experience any discomfort, immediately stop using the lamp and contact your doctor.

* The use of light therapy lamps should not be viewed as a substitute for seeking medical advice.
* Use of the lamps is at your own discretion.
* The University of British Columbia Library is not liable for any health issues related to use of the light therapy lamps.

=== '''Health and Wellbeing at UBC''' ===
Resources are available for University of British Columbia faculty, students and staff:

* [https://students.ubc.ca/health/ Health and Wellbeing for Students]
* [https://hr.ubc.ca/health-and-wellbeing Health and Wellbeing for Employees]
* [https://wellbeing.ubc.ca/ UBC Wellbeing]

=== '''Get in touch''' ===
Your feedback will help us improve this initiative. Please take our short [https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8H7Jw8npaVkrSE5 survey].

=== '''About Seasonal Affective Disorder''' ===
* [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20364651 Mayo Clinic]

* UBC research indicates light therapy is also effective for nonseasonal depression ([https://sad.psychiatry.ubc.ca/ http://ubcsad.ca]; https://news.ubc.ca/2015/11/18/light-therapy-effective-for-depression-ubc-study/). Lam, R., Levitte, A., & Levitan, R. (2016).

* [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2470681 Efficacy of Bright Light Treatment, Fluoxetine, and the Combination in Patients with Nonseasonal Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial]. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(1). 56-63. This study found the use of light therapy for 30 minutes per day improved the overall wellbeing of participants.

* Dr. Raymond Lam has done extensive research on light therapy and has published [https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=4153314 A Clinician’s Guide to Using Light Therapy]

* [https://northernlighttechnologies.ca/winter-blues-and-sad/about-seasonal-affective-disorder/ Northern Light Technologies]
 <hr>
With special thanks to [http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/1187 Susan Parker, University Librarian], and [https://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/408 Lea Starr, Associate University Librarian, Research], for funds to support this initiative, and to [https://northernlighttechnologies.ca/ Northern Light Technologies].

Library:Group Study Areas

2026-02-19T00:23:47Z

Robg:

==Group Study Areas==

Please book Group Rooms for the I. K. Barber Learning Centre, Koerner and Woodward online through the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/spaces Library Room Booking System].

===Asian Library===
Asian Library's two seminar rooms can be booked for group study via the circulation desk on the main floor.

===David Lam Library===
David Lam Library has group study tables on the main floor of the library, and study rooms on the upper level.

===Education Library===
Group study tables are on the main floor near the entrance and on the lower floor.

===Irving K. Barber Learning Centre===
The Learning Centre currently has 3 group study rooms with whiteboards on level 1 and 4 rooms on level 2.

The Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library has 5 group study rooms with whiteboards on levels 3 and 4. Additionally, there are 2 Digital Media Rooms for groups requiring the use of multimedia equipment. For more information and guidelines visit the [https://maa.library.ubc.ca/facilities-technology/dmr Digital Media Rooms information page].

Book all rooms for a study session online using the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/spaces?lid=2174&gid=0&c=0 Library Room Booking System].

Please review these [https://maa.library.ubc.ca/facilities-technology/study-support/room-guidelines/ Guidelines] for booking and using the study rooms.

===Koerner Library (Level 1)===
Several rooms with tables and blackboards for group study are available on level one. Book these rooms for a study session online using the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/reserve/koerner_group_study Library Room Booking System].

===Okanagan Library===
A variety of group and individual study spaces are available on two floors at UBC Okanagan Library. For more information, visit our [https://library.ok.ubc.ca/spaces/library/ Library Spaces] page. [https://library.ok.ubc.ca/spaces/book-study-space/ Book Study Space] on the Okanagan campus.

===Woodward Library===
Woodward Library has group study tables on all levels, and bookable group study rooms on the second floor and Garden level (basement). Book these rooms for a study session online using the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/r/search/woodward_library?m=s&search=&gid=3201 Library Room Booking System].

[[Category:Library_Facilities]]

Library:Group Study Areas

2026-02-14T00:42:43Z

Robg:

==Group Study Areas==

Please book Group Rooms for the I. K. Barber Learning Centre, Koerner and Woodward online through the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/spaces Library Room Booking System].

===Asian Library===
Asian Library's two seminar rooms can be booked for group study via the circulation desk on the main floor.

===David Lam Library===
David Lam Library has group study tables on the main floor of the library, and study rooms on the upper level.

===Education Library===
Group study tables are on the main floor near the entrance and on the lower floor.

===Irving K. Barber Learning Centre===
The Learning Centre currently has 3 group study rooms with whiteboards on level 1 and 4 rooms on level 2.

The Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library has 5 group study rooms with whiteboards on levels 3 and 4. Additionally, there are 2 Digital Media Rooms for groups requiring the use of multimedia equipment. For more information and guidelines visit the [https://maa.library.ubc.ca/facilities-technology/dmr Digital Media Rooms information page].

Book all rooms for a study session online using the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/spaces?lid=2174&gid=0&c=0 Library Room Booking System].

Please review these [https://maa.library.ubc.ca/facilities-technology/study-support/room-guidelines/ Guidelines] for booking and using the study rooms.

===Koerner Library (Level 1)===
Several rooms with tables and blackboards for group study are available on level one. Book these rooms for a study session online using the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/reserve/koerner_group_study Library Room Booking System].

===Okanagan Library===
A variety of group and individual study spaces are available on two floors at UBC Okanagan Library. For more information, visit our [https://library.ok.ubc.ca/spaces/library/ Library Spaces] page. [https://library.ok.ubc.ca/spaces/book-study-space/ Book Study Space] on the Okanagan campus.

===Woodward Library===
Woodward Library has group study tables on all levels, and bookable group study rooms on the second floor and Garden level (basement). Book these rooms for a study session online using the [https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/reserve/woodward_group_study Library Room Booking System].

Please review these [http://woodward.library.ubc.ca/woodward/groupstudy Guidelines] for booking and using the study rooms.
[[Category:Library_Facilities]]

Library:Study Space/Silent Study Areas

2026-02-13T21:42:02Z

Robg: update for Woodward

==Silent Study Areas==
===David Lam Library===
* The entire east perimeter on the main level
* Room 305 on the library's upper floor, around the corner from the washrooms

===Education Library===
* On the west side of the bookstacks, on both the main and lower floor.

===Irving K. Barber Learning Centre===
* The Musqueam Reading Room (room 455) is a silent study area.
* The Nass Reading Room (south end of level 4) is a quiet study area.
* Within the Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library, the Ridington Reading Room (north end of levels 3 and 4) is a silent study area. There are numerous locations within the MAA Library for quiet study, most of which are on level 4.

===Koerner Library===
* Silent Study area on Level 1

===Law Library===
* Silent study throughout entire library

===Okanagan Library===
* Field Reading Room on the First Floor of the Library
* East Reading Room on the First Floor of the Library
* LIB 111 on the First Floor of the Library
* Study Carrels on the Second Floor of the Library

===Woodward Library===
* [https://woodward.library.ubc.ca/spaces/charles-woodward-memorial-room-2/ The Charles Woodward Memorial Room] (Floor 1) is a silent study area.
* Room 34 (Garden Level) is a quiet study area.

[[Category:Library_Facilities]]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2026-01-05T17:44:46Z

Robg:

'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 9am – 5pm
:Sat: 11am - 2pm
:[https://ubc.zoom.us/j/4183165834?pwd=tUNpaaNEm9b2KuhTbmGzddzkxasxFW.1 Connect to Zoom Reference] (Mon to Sat: 11am to 2pm)

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2026-01-05T17:41:20Z

Robg:

'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 9am – 5pm
:Sat: 11am - 2pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2026-01-05T17:40:59Z

Robg:

'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 9am – 5pm Sat: 11am - 2pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2025-12-01T06:47:42Z

Robg:

'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 10am – 4pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:TechServ Widget

2025-10-27T22:38:33Z

Robg:

__NOTOC__
===Divisions===
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/acquisitions/ Acquisitions - Monographs]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/serials/ Acquisitions - Serials]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/cataloguing/ Cataloguing & Metadata]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/cmp/ Collections Management & Planning]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/css/ Collections Storage Services]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/eresources/ eResources & Access]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/licensing/ Licensing]
* [http://techserv.library.ubc.ca/divisions/preservation/ Preservation]

[[Category:TechServ]]
[[Category:Library Widgets]]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2025-09-08T16:28:17Z

Robg:

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2025-09-02T04:21:51Z

Robg:

'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 9am – 5pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

2025-04-16T21:55:57Z

Robg:

Library:Health Information Resources Provided by Professional Associations and Employers

2025-04-11T23:46:54Z

Robg:

The following is a list of health information resources provided by professional association and employers in BC and Canada. This will facilitate planning instructional sessions and referring non-UBC patrons to appropriate resources. The focus is on BC organizations and employers but national organizations are included when relevant.

Inspired by: Chatterley, T., Storie, D., Chambers, T., Buckingham, J., Shiri, A., & Dorgan, M. (2012). Health information support provided by professional associations in Canada. Health information and libraries journal, 29(3), 233–41. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2012.00993.x [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925386 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925386] **See notes below

{| border="1" class="wikitable sortable"
|- align="center"
! Organization !! Librarian !! Library !! Mediated Searching !! [http://www.ehlbc.ca/resources-databases EHLBC] !! Databases & Other Resources
|-
| [https://www.bccnp.ca/Pages/Default.aspx British Columba College of Nursing Professionals] || Yes || BCCNP staff only || BCCNP staff only || Yes - BCCNP staff access only. || BCCNP staff only - Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition, CINAHL Complete, eBook Nursing Collection, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, JBI Database, Journal, and Tools Package, LWW Total Access Collection 2019 with Neurology, MEDLINE with Full Text, Ovid MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO
|-
| [https://www.mycna.ca/ My CNA] || No || No || No || No. Access via self-registration for Canadian Registered Nurses || [https://www.mycna.ca/en/login?returnUrl=/en/my-nurseone/library Online books from ebrary and myilibrary]
|-
| [http://www.bcphysio.org/ Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia] || Yes || No || Yes || Yes || Anatomy.TV (Primal Pictures), Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition, CINAHL Complete, eBook Nursing Collection, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), LWW JBI Book Collection 2011, MEDLINE with Full Text, Primal Pictures Upgrade 2016, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO
|-
| [http://www.providencehealthcare.org/ Providence Health Care] || No || No || No || Yes || Anatomy.TV (Primal Pictures), Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition, CINAHL Complete, Clinical Skills, eBook Nursing Collection, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, LWW JBI Book Collection 2011, LWW Total Access Collection 2019 with Neurology, MEDLINE with Full Text, Ovid MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO
|-
| [http://www.vpl.ca/ Vancouver Public Library] || Yes || Yes || [https://pwp.vpl.ca/infoaction/ Yes (fee for service)] || No || Diseases, Health, & Wellness ebooks (subset of Gale Virtual Reference Library), RxTx, Medline Plus

|-
| [http://www.bcdental.org/ British Columbia Dental Association] || No || No || No || No ||
|-
| [http://www.bcpharmacy.ca British Columbia Pharmacy Association] || No || No || No || No ||
|-
| [http://www.cda-adc.ca/ Canadian Dental Association] || No || Yes (online resources-password required) || No || No || Lexicomp Online, other practice resources for members only.
|-
| [http://www.pharmacists.ca/ Canadian Pharmacists Association] || No || No || No || No || Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, Compendium of Products for Minor Ailments, Compendium of Therapeutic Choices, Compendium of Therapeutics for Minor Ailments
|-
| [http://www.physiotherapy.ca/ Canadian Physiotherapy Association] || No || Yes (online access to databases password required) || No || No || OrthoEvidence, PedPro
|-
| [http://cdsbc.org/ College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia] || No || No || No || No ||
|-
| [http://www.bcpharmacists.org/ College of Pharmacists of British Columbia] || No || No || No || No ||
|-
| [http://www.cptbc.org/ College of Physical Therapists of British Columbia] || No || No || No || No ||
|-
| [https://caot.ca/ Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists - BC Chapter] || No || No || No || Yes || Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition, CINAHL Complete, eBook Nursing Collection, MEDLINE with Full Text, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO
|-
|}

<nowiki>**</nowiki> The Canadian Medical Association stopped providing clinical information services in 2023 (Source: [https://www.cma.ca/latest-stories/focusing-impact-upcoming-changes-cma-programs-and-services Canadian Medical Association])

<nowiki>**</nowiki> College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC closed in 2024 (Source: [https://www.cpsbc.ca/news/library-permanently-closed#:~:text=The%20College%20library%20is%20permanently,library%20use%20over%20the%20years. CPSBC])

Source: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuvRxV12791LdFRUNWRVOW1vNE04WjlBTnN0aU5ReUE&usp=sharing#gid=0 Google Doc]

[[Category:Woodward Library]] [[Category:DeanGiustini]] [[Category:KEM]]

Library:Course Reserves Contacts

2025-01-30T19:32:05Z

Robg: education phone number updated as per https://jira.it.ubc.ca/browse/TDUX-825

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| Asian Library || asian.reserve@ubc.ca 604-822-2427 || materials in Asian languages
|-
| David Lam Library || dlam.reserve@ubc.ca 604-822-9391 || commerce and business administration
|-
| Education Library || education.reserve@ubc.ca 604-822-9713 || education and curriculum materials
|-
| Koerner Library || koerner.reserve@ubc.ca 604-822-2639 || humanities, social sciences
|-
| Law Library || law.reserve@ubc.ca 604-827-3577 || materials relating to law
|-
| Music, Art & Architecture Library || maa.reserve@ubc.ca 604-827-5363 || music, art history, visual art & theory, architecture & landscape architecture, community & regional planning, library, archival & information studies, computer science, statistics, mathematics
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| Okanagan Library || okanagan.reserve@ubc.ca 250-807-9941 || materials in the Okanagan Library
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| Woodward Library || woodward.reserve@ubc.ca 604-822-5585 || health and life sciences, forestry, agriculture, food science, bio-resource engineering, science, applied science, dentistry
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|Xwi7xwa Library
|access.xwi@ubc.ca
604-822-9313
|Materials relating to Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in education, humanities, social sciences, literature, health, rights & title and worldviews.
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| Rights and Permissions Service || syllabus.service@ubc.ca || syllabus service and other requests for copyrighted materials for use in Library Course Reserves
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|UBC Instructional Support Units || [http://lthub.ubc.ca/support/instructional-units lthub.ubc.ca/support/instructional-units] || Instructional support units provide specific technical and functional support for learning technologies (Connect, Canvas, etc.). Specific contacts for UBCO and all UBCV faculties are listed [http://lthub.ubc.ca/support/instructional-units here].
|}

Library:Connect to Library Resources

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Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

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'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 9am – 5pm
:Sat: 12pm – 3pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

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'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 9am – 5pm Sat: 12pm – 3pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

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Library:Woodward Branch Widget/Contact

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'''Reference Desk:'''
:Mon to Fri: 10am-4pm

 '''E-mail:'''
:General inquiries: [mailto:wd.ref@ubc.ca wd.ref@ubc.ca]
:Donations: [mailto:wd.donations@ubc.ca wd.donations@ubc.ca]

 '''Contact Numbers:'''
:Info Desk: 604-822-2883
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/index/SearchDivision.div_id:33 More Numbers... ]

 '''Reference and Research:'''
:[http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/subjectlibrarians/People.division_id:33 Woodward Librarians By Subject]

Library:Public Computers & Labs/add pc

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==== Additional PC Software ====
{| class="wikitable"
!PC: Additional Software Availability
!Chapman
Learning

Commons

Level 3
!Koerner
Rooms 217 and 218A
!Koerner
Room 497

(Digital Scholarship Lab)
!Woodward
Teaching Lab
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|'''[https://www.adobe.com/ca/creativecloud.html Adobe Creative Cloud :]''' [https://lc2016.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2021/09/Adobe_SDL_Poster-1-Page-How-to-for-User-Login-Steps-scaled.jpg Sign in Required]
After Effects,Animate, Audition, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign,Lightroom, Muse, Photoshop, Prelude, Premiere, Scout, SpeedGrade

'''Please note''': Due to licensing restrictions,

Adobe Creative Cloud software is not available

remotely.
|
|✔
|✔
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|[https://www.anaconda.com/products/data-science-ai-workbench Anaconda]
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|✔
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|'''[https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/overview ArcGIS Pro]'''
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|✔
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|'''[https://atom.io/ Atom Code Editor]'''
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|[https://www.blender.org/ Blender]
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|[https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/esri-cityengine/overview '''ESRI City Engine''']
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|'''[https://www.safe.com/fme/fme-desktop/ FME Desktop]'''
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|[https://gephi.org/ Gephi]
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|[https://www.git-scm.com/ Git]
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|'''[https://www.google.ca/earth/ Google Earth Pro]'''
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|✔
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|'''[https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ Grass GIS]'''
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|'''[https://www.irfanview.com/ IrfanView Image Viewer]'''
|✔
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|[https://lthub.ubc.ca/guides/lockdown-browser-student-guide '''Lockdown Browser''']
'''Please note:''' must be installed by user
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|'''[https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html Matlab]'''(Mathworks)
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|[https://miktex.org/ MiKTeX]
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|[https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++]
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|'''[http://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo-product NVivo]'''
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|[https://openrefine.org/ OpenRefine]
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|[https://www.virtualbox.org/ Oracle VM Virtualbox]
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|[https://www.oxygenxml.com/ '''Oxygen XML Editor''']
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|[https://www.pandoc.org/ Pandoc]
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|[https://pyzo.org/ Pyzo]
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|'''[http://www.qgis.org/en/site/ QGIS]'''
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|'''[https://www.r-project.org/ R & R Studio]'''
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|'''[http://www.sas.com/en_ca/home.html SAS]'''
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|'''[http://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/spss/ SPSS]'''
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|'''[http://www.stata.com/products/which-stata-is-right-for-me/ Stata SE]'''
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|[https://www.texstudio.org/ TeXStudio]
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|[https://tortoisesvn.net/ Tortoise SVN]
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|[https://zoom.us/ '''Zoom''']
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* *Only in Koerner 218A; not in room 217
* [https://www.eastview.com/resources/books-and-e-books/siku-quanshu/ Eastview Siku Client] is available on computers in the [http://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-asian Asian Library] .
* Additional financial software programs are available in the David Lam Library and Canaccord Learning Commons, [https://mybcom.sauder.ubc.ca/specialized-learning-spaces/leith-wheeler-investment-research-lab Leith Wheeler Investment Research Lab (CLC 222)]. Additional permissions for access is required. Please check with the [https://lam.library.ubc.ca/ David Lam Library Staff] for further information.

Documentation:CTLT programs/CTLT Institute/2011 Facilitators

2024-09-23T18:23:41Z

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==A==
'''Afsaneh Sharif'''
''Instructional Designer''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Afsaneh is interested in the application and integration of technology into the learning environment in a way that both enhances learning and makes it easy for instructors and students to use. She likes to explore diversity and cultural challenges in an online environment, and how the visual representation of information aids learning. Particular interests for her include accessibility, communities of learning, open education, and instructional/learning design.

'''Alison Wong'''
''Production Applications Administrator''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Alison provides support for learning tools such as CoursEval and Turnitin. She works with Faculties to set up and implement the end-of-term evaluations, and provides training and support for faculty and instructional support staff for other learning tools.

'''Amy Perrault'''
''Coordinator of Aboriginal Initiatives''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Amy comes from Métis heritage out of Thompson, Manitoba, though she grew up in British Columbia in West Kootenays. She is the Coordinator of Aboriginal Initiatives at the Centre for Teaching Learning and Technology where she works with staff, faculty groups, training programs for teaching assistants, new faculty, and administrators to support the development of a higher standard of professionalism in conducting discussions of Aboriginal and other contentious social issues in curricular settings.

In her previous roles as an academic advisor for Aboriginal students in the Faculty of Arts and program advisor for the First Nations Studies Program, Amy had the opportunity to work with a variety of different people and build a large network of support for Aboriginal engagement at UBC.

Amy is also co-developer and researcher for [http://www.whatilearnedinclasstoday.com What I Learned in Class Today: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom]. Work on this project clearly identified the complexities and challenges of classroom conversations involving contentious cross-cultural discussions, and in specific discourse around Aboriginal curriculum.

'''Andrea Han'''
''Instructional Technologies Analyst''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Andrea is an Instructional Technologies Analyst for the Faculty of Science. She is interested in how technology can be used to engage students and extend the learning environment beyond the traditional classroom.

==B==

'''Brian Lamb'''
''Strategist, Teaching and Learning''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Brian does his best to keep up with the constant developments and new applications of learning technology at UBC and beyond. He also teaches a course on “Text Technologies: The Changing Spaces of Reading and Writing” for UBC’s Master of Educational Technology program. He mutters ill-tempered observations on social learning, open education, disruptive technologies, and other such things on his weblog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/

'''Brian Lin'''
''Senior Communications Coordinator''
''Public Affairs''
Brian has been a communications coordinator at UBC for ten years. He currently provides media relations support to the Faculties of Science, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as to the Vice President Research & International. He has a Master of Journalism from UBC, and spent a year interning at the Vancouver Bureau of CTV National News.

==C==

'''Cindy Underhill'''
''Strategist, Learning Resource Design''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Cindy is engaged in a variety of projects related to the development of web-based resources to support learners. She’s interested in the application of social web approaches to support learning–-wherever it happens. Cindy’s been a college instructor, considers herself a learner, is proud to be an amateur at most things, and has been involved with educational technology and distance learning for the past several years at UBC. She shares work-in-progress and the occasional observation about learning (mostly) on her blog: http://cindyu.wordpress.com/

==D==

'''Dan Pratt'''
''Professor, Adult and Higher Education''
''Senior Scholar, Centre for Health Education Scholarship''
Dan Pratt is a professor of Adult & Higher Education, and holds a cross-appointment in the School of Medicine, where he is a Senior Scholar within the Centre for Health Education Scholarship. Dr. Pratt has been a visiting professor at universities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2008, Dan received Canada’s most prestigious university teaching award–-the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

==E==

'''Emily Renoe'''
''Learning Technology Specialist''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Emily assists, supports, and trains faculty and staff in WebCT Vista, UBC Blogs, Wikis, and other UBC supported tools, as well as other emerging web technologies. She has worked in the IT industry for over ten years, and previously worked as a Technical Trainer in the private sector.

'''Eric Jandciu'''
''Course Coordinator/Instructor''
''CommScie 300''
Eric is the SCIE 300 Communicating Science Course Coordinator. After blowing up a fume hood in the Chemistry Building, Eric was happy to complete his Chemistry graduate work with a Master’s degree and pursue further graduate work in Journalism. His Master of Journalism thesis project explored the skills required by science journalists and proposed a curriculum for a graduate-level science journalism course, elements of which have been used at the UBC School of Journalism. Eric has worked as a freelance journalist, science writer, and grant writer. He has also worked for Springer in Heidelberg, Germany, managing the editing of English-language scientific manuscripts. In addition, Eric contributes to textbooks used in both Canadian and American high schools and junior high schools. When not nerding out on the intersection of science with society, Eric is hiking in the summer, skiing in the winter, and biking year round.

'''Erin Hanson'''
''Research Project Manager''
''Indigenous Foundations, First Nations Studies Program''
Erin received her BA in Anthropology & First Nations Studies from UBC. As an undergraduate, she took part in the First Nations Studies Practicum, in which she worked for the Stó:lō Tribal Council assessing the community impacts of transmission lines that pass through the territory.
Following graduation, Erin continued to work in S’óhl Téméxw with the Stó:lō Research & Resource Management Centre, where she worked with elders on a Traditional Land Use study and conducted archival research and interviews to determine the impacts of the power lines. First Nations along the line have recently won court cases claiming that BC Hydro’s consultation was inadequate; an exciting victory for a project that has roots in the First Nations Studies Program capstone course FNSP 400.

Erin works in the First Nations Studies Program as a researcher and project manager for the website project Indigenous Foundations. Indigenous Foundations was created in response to feedback from students and faculty who were frustrated that discussions in the classroom could rarely move beyond an introductory level, as people come to university with differing levels of knowledge about Aboriginal topics. Indigenous Foundations seeks to narrow this gap by providing concise and accurate information on a range of foundational topics key to understanding Aboriginal issues in Canada today.

==G==

'''Gail Hammond'''
''Instructor''
''Food, Nutrition and Health''
Gail is an instructor in Food, Nutrition and Health. In her teaching, she uses strategies including debate and problem-based learning that challenge and actively engage students in their learning. She recently graduated from the UBC Faculty Certificate Program in the Scholarship for Teaching and Learning, and is focused on improving students’ educational experiences.

'''Greg Bole'''
''Instructor''
''Biology''
Greg Bole has been a lab faculty member, lecturer, and has spent the last eight years as an Instructor in the Biology Program at UBC, where he was awarded the 2007/08 Faculty of Science Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Greg started acting when he was twelve years old and continues it as a hobby. He has also been portraying Charles Darwin for the past five years to classes and conferences in a wide variety of locations.

==H==

'''Harry Hubball'''
''Academic Director''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Harry Hubball (Senior Advisor, Teaching and Learning; Academic Director pro-tem, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology) served on last year's TLEF Adjudication Committee. Harry is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, and his research and practice focus on the scholarship of curriculum and pedagogical practice in higher education.

==J==

'''Jan Johnson'''
''Manager, Facilitation and Process Design''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Jan is an adult educator, an educational developer, and a facilitator. She has been associated with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) (formerly the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth) in a variety of ways since 1992. She is currently Manager, Facilitation and Process Design in CTLT.

She works with individuals, units, departments and faculties as both a facilitator and an educational developer in many areas related to teaching and learning. She also facilitates the CTLT Course Design Intensive, three day Instructional Skills Workshops, and numerous shorter teaching and learning seminars and community of practice events. She contributes to various special projects related to teaching and learning, both across the campus and with other post-secondary institutions in British Columbia.

'''Jim Sibley'''
''Director''
''Centre for Instructional Support, Faculty of Applied Science''
Jim Sibley is director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science. As a faculty developer, his current focus includes the implementation of Team-Based Learning in large class settings, new faculty orientation, course design, and developing his own online peer evaluation software (iPeer). The Centre for Instructional Support serves six Engineering departments, a School of Nursing, and a School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Jim has over twenty-seven years of experience in faculty support and training, web design, and managing software development at UBC.

'''Joanne Nakonechny'''
''Research Associate''
''Science Centre for Learning and Teaching (Skylight), Faculty of Science''
Joanne Nakonechny is a research associate with the Science Centre for Learning and Teaching (Skylight) in the Faculty of Science. Her PhD in educational anthropology--a strongly qualitative discipline--has provided her with an "interesting" entrance into working on educational research questions with her strongly quantitative-based colleagues in the sciences.

'''Joe Zerdin'''
''Analyst, Emerging Technologies''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technologies''
Joe loves technology. When something new and shiny comes out, he immediately evaluates it and starts to consider how it can be used to enhance teaching and learning. Joe primarily works on implementing and supporting iClickers and Wimba Classroom/Voice, but usually has his hands in a wide variety of technological pots.

'''John Egan'''
''Senior Manager, Strategic Curriculum Services''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
John is the Senior Manager, Strategic Curriculum Services at CTLT, with many years’ experience as a curriculum developer, instructor, facilitator, course designer, program administrator, and educational researcher. He has experience at the community, adult, corporate, private post-secondary, and university-levels, in Canada and internationally. John has also been published widely in the fields of education and health. His work has been published in The Journal of Interprofessional Care, Studies in the Education of Adults, Convergence, and The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education.

'''Josefina Rosado'''
''Web Designer/Programmer''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Josefina is a Web Desinger/Programmer for the CTLT Distance and Blended Learning Team. She works with faculty and instructional designers to design, develop and deliver online and blended distance learning courses. She likes to explore ways to make web content and education more accessible to different users. Her interests are accessibility, communications, open education and mobile learning.

'''Joy Kirchener'''
''Librarian, Collections, Licensing and Digital Scholarship''
''UBC Library''
Joy Kirchner is the Librarian for Collections, Licensing, and Digital Scholarship at the University of British Columbia Library. Her role involves coordinating scholarly communications activities for the university and negotiating licenses for university access to digital content. Joy is also a member of the Provost’s campus-wide Scholarly Communications Steering Committee. As well, she's a faculty member with the ARL/ACRL/ Institute for Scholarly Communication, where she assists with the coordination and program development of ACRL’s Scholarly Communications 101 Road Show program. Joy additionally finds time to be a presenter and a committee member on the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee.

==K==

'''Kurt Grimm'''
''Associate Professor''
''Earth and Ocean Sciences''
Kurt Grimm is an interdisciplinary Earth/Life scientist, and is endlessly fascinated with patterning and transformation. He aspires to a unique synthesis of natural and Living phenomena that may clarify, catalyze, and perpetuate authentic and transformative sustainability.

==L==

'''Lucas Wright'''
''Learning Technology Specialist''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Lucas previously worked with the Teacher Education Office at the University, training and supporting faculty and teacher candidates in developing ePortfolios using the WordPress platform since 2007. He joined CTLT in 2010, where he assists and supports faculty and staff with the implementation of technology to support their teaching and learning.

==N==

'''Novak Rogic'''
''Manager, Web Strategy''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Novak Rogic is CTLT's Web Strategist, leading the web projects that emphasize content sharing and republishing. He would love to show you how functional your website could be, and firmly believes that “less is more”. He barely blogs at http://blogs.ubc.ca/novak/ and rarely publishes photos http://supernovak.com/.

==P==

'''Pan Luo'''
''Program Analyst''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Pan supports iPeer and WebWorks, and serves as program analyst at the Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology. He is the leader and developer of the iPeer project. He also develops application plug-ins for system integration and web applications. Pan is interested in exploring and utilizing new technologies in learning environments.

'''Dr. Patti Janssen'''
''Director, Master of Public Health Program, School of Population and Public Health''
''Associate Faculty, Division of Midwifery, Department of Family Practice''
''Associate Faculty, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology''
''Associate Faculty, School of Nursing''
Dr. Janssen is a Professor, Co-team leader for Maternal Child Health, and Director of the Master of Public Health Program in the School of Population and Public Health. She is also Associate Faculty in the Departments of Family Practice, Midwifery, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the School of Nursing. She is the recipient of a Killam Teaching Award in 2010 for her work in developing the MPH program. She is also the UBC 2010 recipient of the President’s Award for Public Education through Media.

==R==

'''Randy Schmidt'''
''Associate Director''
''Public Affairs''
Randy has worked in the communications field for more than twenty years, including fourteen years in the university setting. His current job involves supporting UBC’s central media relations team and its work to publicize the work of faculty researchers and students.

==T==

'''Trish Rosseel'''
''Teaching and Learning Librarian''
''UBC Library''
Trish Rosseel is the Teaching & Learning Librarian at UBC Library. In this role, she works collaboratively with library colleagues and partners across campus to coordinate, design, develop, and deliver responsive and innovative instruction programs for the UBC community. Prior to returning to UBC last year, Trish enjoyed fifteen years of interesting and engaging work with the Government of BC, SFU Library, BCcampus, UBC, the Association of Research Libraries, and the BC Electronic Library Network. Much of this work involved designing, developing, and delivering face-to-face and online workshops and/or courses to students, faculty, and librarians.

==W==

'''Will Engle'''
''Educational and Social Media Resource Coordinator''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Will Engle is a graduate academic assistant at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC where he is focused on creating organizational and structural support for the UBC Wiki. He is currently completing a Masters in Library and Information Sciences at UBC's School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies.

==Z==

'''Zack Lee'''
''Educational Resources Developer''
''Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology''
Zack supports the development of resources for the programs and services at CTLT, focusing on information design and architecture. He is interested in the intersection of individual participation, new forms of expression and technology.

Documentation:CTLT Resources/Resource Room Supervision Scene Video

2024-09-23T18:21:48Z

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==Supervision Scene Video==
Members of the UBC community can receive a free copy of the 1999 video and guidebook. Non-UBC community members interested in receiving a copy will only need to pay for postage.

A Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology Production,
The University of British Columbia
Copyright © January 1999

'''What is ''Supervision Scenes''?'''

*a contemporary video resource and training tool for graduate students, supervisors, committees, student associations, focus groups and departments
*a UBC faculty, student and staff production, sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund
*a series of fourteen dramatized scenarios depicting challenges in the supervisory relationship (Running time: 37 minutes)
*a catalyst for discussion and change

At UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, we frequently receive requests for teaching and learning materials related to the graduate student-graduate supervisor relationship. Yet there is limited research available in this complex area – and definitely a scarcity of up-to-date training tools. Designed to fill this gap by providing supervisors and students with an interactive training resource, Supervision Scenes can be used to promote effective communication within the supervisory relationship.

''Supervision Scenes'' presents fourteen dramatizations, each highlighting several communicative challenges between students and supervisors. These ‘trigger films’ can be used by individuals, focus groups, committees and entire departments as a vehicle for creating discussion around supervision issues. A form of structured controversy, these dramatized scenarios can promote a lively discussion, with or without personal disclosure.

Be advised that viewing this video in itself will not resolve your supervisory issues. Instead, it can serve as a springboard to further discussion, reassessment of roles and responsibilities, and constructive change. An accompanying Facilitator’s Guidebook offers practical tips on how to use ''Supervision Scenes'' and lead a productive discussion. Synopses and questions for each video incident are provided, along with a full list of references.

The production of this video was made possible by the enthusiastic participation of Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology supporters from across campus. UBC faculty and students served as producers, writers, technicians, editors, directors and actors, mostly on a volunteer basis. We gratefully acknowledge their contributions.

We hope that your experience with ''Supervision'' Scenes is productive, and that you will share this resource with your colleagues.

Library:EmailNotifications

2024-09-19T22:21:23Z

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== <div style="text-align: center;"> '''Get & Update Email Notification''' </div> ==

=== '''Want to receive library notices by Email?''' ===

==== '''You can register to have your library account information emailed to you. You will receive the following email notices:''' ====
{| class="wikitable"
|Courtesy Reminder:
|Sent 3 days before due date.

(Does not include Course reserve material or items with a loan period of two days or less.)
|-
|Overdue notice:
|Sent 1 day after the item is due.
|-
|Overdue notice:
|Sent 14 days after the item is due.
|-
|Lost notice:
|Sent 28 days after the item is due. The item is assumed Lost and you will be billed the cost of the book plus a processing fee.
|-
|Recall notice:
|Informs you that another user has requested an item signed out to you. You must return the item by the due date on the notice.
|-
|Hold availability:
|Informs you that the item you requested is available.
|-
|Fines owing:
|Sent as soon as any fine or other charge is incurred.
|}

=== '''UBC Students (Affiliated Students see below):''' ===

==== '''''If your UBC student record has an email address, you will automatically receive email notices.''''' ====
''To register for email notification, add your email address to your UBC student record (https://workday.students.ubc.ca/personal-information/adding-changing-your-contact-information/<nowiki/>)''

''If your email address changes, please update your UBC student record.''

''Any valid email address is acceptable.''

=== '''UBC Faculty, Staff, Affiliated Students and Community Borrowers:''' ===
You can use this form to register for email notification. You can also use this form to let the Library know of changes in your email address.

Please logon with your Library barcode and PIN below to add or update your email address.

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Library:Truncation and Wildcard Symbols

2024-09-10T23:47:38Z

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<center><nowiki>*</nowiki></center> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"'''</center> ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

'''Example:'''

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n'''</center> (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 '''Compendex''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center>

''Note: [[#cabi|[xix]]]''
|valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center>

''Note: ''[[#cabi|[xix]]]
|
|
|valign="top" | <center>'''“”'''</center>
<center>disables stemming </center>

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" |<center> '''“hip pain”~2''' </center>

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" |<center> '''*'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''?'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''</center>
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|<center>'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n''' </center>

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {}. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term.

It also can be used as a mutli-character wildcard. Use an '''asterisk''' to replace 0 to X number of characters anywhere in the word.

''Examples:''

* h'''*'''emoglobin finds hemoglobin, haemoglobin, hemimethemoglobin
* Sul'''*'''ate finds sulfate, sulfonate, sulphate, sulphonate.

Left Truncation: If you precede a word with the an asterisk *

''Example:''

* '''*'''sorption returns adsorption, absorption, chemisorption, desorption, resorption, sorption

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<center><nowiki>*</nowiki></center> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"'''</center> ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

'''Example:'''

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n'''</center> (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 '''Compendex''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' OR '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' OR '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center>

''Note: [[#cabi|[xix]]]''
|valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center>

''Note: ''[[#cabi|[xix]]]
|
|
|valign="top" | <center>'''“”'''</center>
<center>disables stemming </center>

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" |<center> '''“hip pain”~2''' </center>

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" |<center> '''*'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''?'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''</center>
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|<center>'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n''' </center>

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {}. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term.

It also can be used as a mutli-character wildcard. Use an '''asterisk''' to replace 0 to X number of characters anywhere in the word.

''Examples:''

* h'''*'''emoglobin finds hemoglobin, haemoglobin, hemimethemoglobin
* Sul'''*'''ate finds sulfate, sulfonate, sulphate, sulphonate.

Left Truncation: If you precede a word with the an asterisk *

''Example:''

* '''*'''sorption returns adsorption, absorption, chemisorption, desorption, resorption, sorption

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<center><nowiki>*</nowiki></center> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"'''</center> ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

'''Example:'''

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n'''</center> (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center>

''Note: [[#cabi|[xix]]]''
|valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center>

''Note: ''[[#cabi|[xix]]]
|
|
|valign="top" | <center>'''“”'''</center>
<center>disables stemming </center>

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" |<center> '''“hip pain”~2''' </center>

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" |<center> '''*'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''?'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''</center>
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|<center>'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n''' </center>

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<center><nowiki>*</nowiki></center> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"'''</center> ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

'''Example:'''

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n'''</center> (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | <center>'''*'''</center>

''Note: [[#cabi|[xix]]]''
|valign="top" |<center>'''?'''</center>

''Note: ''[[#cabi|[xix]]]
|
|
|valign="top" | <center>'''“”'''</center>
<center>disables stemming </center>

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" |<center> '''“hip pain”~2''' </center>

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" |<center> '''*'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''?'''</center>
|valign="top" |<center> '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''</center>
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|<center>'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n''' </center>

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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2024-08-26T23:19:24Z

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='''Microsoft Outlook: Sharing your UBC Exchange Calendar'''=

To share your UBC Exchange Calendar, two tasks must be performed:
1. The 'Sharer' of the calendar must grant the 'Viewee' permission to view their calendar
2. The 'Viewee' of the calendar must add the shared calendar to his/her Outlook

=='''Mac'''==

Supported Software: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac

* With Outlook open, click on your Calendar Folder
* Right-click (or Control+click) on your UBC Exchange Calendar and select "Sharing Permissions..."
[[File:Outlook2011_CalendarSharing1.png‎]]
* You'll see the window shown below. Click the "Add User..." button to select the Exchange user you would like to share your calendar with.
[[File:Outlook2011_CalendarSharing2.png‎]]
* If you are not sure of the full username, you can search the directory with the Find field as below. Once you find the user, click "Ok"

* With the newly added user selected, set the Permission level with the dropdown field. A user must have at least Reviewer status to be able to view your Calendar Items.
[[File:Outlook2011_CalendarSharing4.png‎]]

* That's it - click OK to complete!

=='''Windows'''==
Supported Software: All versions of Microsoft Outlook for Windows

* With Outlook open, click on your Calendar Folder
* Right-click on your Calendar to select "Share" then "Share Calendar"

* A new "Sharing Invitation" window will pop up, enter the name of the Exchange user you would like to share your calendar with, then select "Limited details" from the "Details" drop down list

* Click "Send" to share your calendar

=='''Outlook Web Access'''==

Login to your Exchange Calendar through the [http://mail.ubc.ca Outlook Web App]

* With Outlook Web Access App open, click on your Calendar Folder
* Right-click (or Control+click) on your Calendar to select "Share" then "Share This Calendar..."

* A new "Sharing Invitation" window will pop up, enter the name of the Exchange user you would like to share your calendar with, then select the radio button for "Free/busy information including subject and location"

* Click "Send" to share your calendar

='''Microsoft Outlook: Adding a Shared UBC Exchange Calendar'''=
* '''After''' the Sharer has given the Viewee permission to access his/her calendar, the Viewee can Add the calendar in Outlook.
* See: [[Documentation:CTLT_Microsoft_Outlook:_Adding_Another_User%27s_Calendar/Inbox|Adding a Shared Calendar]]

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Library:Truncation and Wildcard Symbols

2024-08-23T23:36:25Z

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

'''Example:'''

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [[#cabi|[xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''

''Note: ''[[#cabi|[xix]]]
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”'''
disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
This work '''Truncation and Wildcard Symbols''', by Charlotte Beck and Kate Longley, identified by [http://www.library.ubc.ca UBC Library], is free of known copyright restrictions.
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Library:Truncation and Wildcard Symbols

2024-08-23T23:18:29Z

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note:<nowiki/> [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|x]]<nowiki/>[[#cabi|ix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note:<nowiki/> [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|x]]<nowiki/>[[#cabi|ix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
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|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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<div id="cabi">'''Cabi Digital Library'''</div>

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#pubmed|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxii]]]
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: ''[[#pubmed|[xxiii]]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#proquest|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#proquest|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#ebscohost|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#engineeringvillage|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#webofscience|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#pedro|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: ''[[#scopus|[xxiv]]]
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

<div id="pubmed">'''PubMed'''</div>

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

<div id="proquest">'''PROQUEST databases'''</div>

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

<div id="ebscohost">'''EBSCOHOST databases'''</div>

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

<div id="engineeringvillage">'''Engineering Village'''</div>

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

<div id="webofscience">'''Web of Science'''</div>

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

<div id="pedro">'''PEDro'''</div>

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

<div id="scopus">'''Scopus'''</div>
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 '''Scopus''']
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.</div>

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.</div>

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

<div id="Ovid">'''Ovid databases'''</div>

[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.</div>

[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

'''Ovid databases'''

<div id="Ovid1">[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.</div>

<div id="Ovid2" >[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".</div>

<div id="Ovid3" >[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.</div>

<div id="Ovid4" >[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators</div>

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

'''Ovid databases'''

<div id="Ovid1" style="display:inline;">[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.</div>

<div id="Ovid2" style="display:inline;">[ii] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".</div>

<div id="Ovid3" style="display:inline;">[iii] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.</div>

<div id="Ovid4" style="display:inline;">[iv] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators</div>

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

'''Ovid databases'''

<div id="Ovid1" style="display:inline;">[i] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.</div>[[#Ovid2|[ii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[[#Ovid3|[iii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[[#Ovid4|[iv]]] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

'''Ovid databases'''

<div id="Ovid1" style="display:inline;">[i]</div> In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[[#Ovid2|[ii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[[#Ovid3|[iii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[[#Ovid4|[iv]]] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

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'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

'''Ovid databases'''

<div id="#Ovid1">[i]</div> In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[[#Ovid2|[ii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[[#Ovid3|[iii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[[#Ovid4|[iv]]] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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{| width="100%%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center" valign="top"
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''SOURCE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''TRUNCATION'''
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" | '''WILDCARD'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PHRASE'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''PROXIMITY'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" | '''Other Notes'''
|- align="center"
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or 1 characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for 0 or more characters
| bgcolor="#EEEEEE" | Stands in for exactly 1 character
|- valign="top"
| align="left" |'''OVID databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/139 Medline]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/129 Embase]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/644 EBM reviews] (incl. Cochrane)
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/253 HaPI]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 FSTA]
| align="left" | <center><nowiki>*</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>$</nowiki>   or  <nowiki>:</nowiki></center> '''Example: '''disease$ ''Note:'' [[#Ovid1|[i]]]
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>?</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' flavo?r ''Note:'' [[#Ovid2|[ii]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="left" | <center><nowiki>#</nowiki></center> '''Example:''' wom#n ''Note:'' [[#Ovid3|[iii]]]
| valign="top" align="left"|
*No quotation marks needed for phrase searching
*Stop words will be removed
| align="left" |<center>'''adj/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> '''Example:''' natural adj5 childbirth ''Note:'' [[#Ovid4|[iv]]]
|  
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321 '''PubMed''']
| align="left" valign="top" |<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Note:'' [[#PubMed1|[v]]]
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| style="color:black; align="center" |
| valign="top" | '''"xxx"''' ''Note: [xxii]''
|valign="top" | “search terms”[Field:~N]

Example:

“hip pain”[Title/Abstract:~2]

Finds hip within 2 or less words from pain.

''Note: [xxiii]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" |
'''PROQUEST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/811 LLBA]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" | '''*''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest1|[vi]]]
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''*''' 
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| rowspan="2" style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |'''?''' ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest2|[vii]]]
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |'''"xxx"''' 
| align="left" valign="top" |'''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' (where "n" is a number) ''Note:'' [[#ProQuest3|[viii]]]
| rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"|
|-
|<center>
'''PRE/n''' or '''P/n''' Note:'' [[#ProQuest4|[ix]]]''
</center>
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''EBSCOHOST databases:'''
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/196 Academic Search Premier]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/92 Cinahl]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1042 Communication and Mass Media Complete]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/576 Mental Measurement Yearbook (Buros]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/159 PsycInfo]
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/118 SPORTDiscus]
|<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''#'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center> 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]]
| align="left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center> 
| align="left" |<center>'''N/n''' or '''W/n''' (where "n" is a number)</center> ''Note:'' [[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]]
| 
|-
| align="left" valign="top" |
'''Engineering Village''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/715 Compendex]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' '''Automatic Stemming'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''*''' 
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' 
| align="left" valign="top"|<center>'''"xxx"''' or '''{xxx}'''</center> 
| valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n''' or '''ONEAR/n'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]]
| align="left" valign="top"|'''Proximity searching does not work with:''' truncation, wildcards, parentheses, quotation marks, or braces.
|-
|valign="top" | '''Cabi Digital Library'''
|valign="top" | '''*'''

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|valign="top" |'''?'''''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi19|xix]]]''
|
|
|valign="top" | '''“”''' disables stemming

''Note: [<nowiki/>[[#cabi20|xx]]]''
|valign="top" | '''“hip pain”~2'''

''Note [<nowiki/>[[#cabi21|xxi]]]''
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|valign="top" | '''Web of Science Core Collection''' 
*[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/277 Web of Science]
| align="left" valign="top" |<center>'''*'''</center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''$''' </center> ''Note:'' [[#WebOfKnowledge2|[xvi]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top"|<center>'''*''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" valign="top" |<center>'''?''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
|valign="top" | <center>'''NEAR/n'''(where "n" is a number)</center>
|valign="top" | When the word "near" appears in the title of a source item such as the title of a journal, book, or proceeding - enclose in parentheses (near)
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[https://pedro.org.au/ PEDro]'''
|'''Automatic stemming.''' Use truncation character '''*''' only at the beginning of a word ''Note:'' [[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''@''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"''' </center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
|-
|valign="top" | [https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2677 Scopus]
|valign="top" |'''*''' Use of lemmatization
|
|valign="top" | '''*'''
|valign="top" | '''?'''
|valign="top" | '''“xxx” = loose phrase''' '''{xxx} = exact phrase'''
''Note: [xxiv]''
|'''W/n'''
'''PRE/n'''

Note: [xxiv]
|
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#catalogue '''UBC Library Catalogue''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|[http://search.library.ubc.ca/#general '''UBC Library - Summon Search''']
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''*'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''?'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |Wildcards cannot be used as the first character in a search
|- align="left" valign="top" |
|'''[http://resources.library.ubc.ca/943 Google/Google Scholar]'''
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" |<center>'''"xxx"'''</center>
| style="color:black; align=" left" | 
| style="color:black; align=" left" | ''Notes:'' [[#Google1|[xviii]]]
|}

===NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS===

<references />

'''Cabi Digital Library'''

[[#cabi19|[xix]]] Truncation and wildcards cannot be used with phrase searching or proximity searching. [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/truncation-or-using-wildcards-for-searching-with-partial-search-terms]]

[[#cabi20|[xx]]] [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/using-double-quotes-for-exact-matching-of-words-and-phrases]]

[[#cabi21|[xxi]]] Place quotation marks around the terms you want to search for, followed by a tilde ~ and a number indicating the maximum number of words separating the terms. If a proximity operator is included inside double quotes “~” it is ignored [[/help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching|https://help.cabi.org/cabi-digital-library-help/search/proximity-searching]]

'''Ovid databases'''

[[#Ovid1|[i]]] In OVID databases, you must turn off Subject mapping for truncation to work. You may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as “fish'''eries'''”.

[[#Ovid2|[ii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to find variations of spelling for the term. The '''?''' symbol is used inside or at the end of the search word. For instance colo?r would find all results for "color", and all results for "colour". And bird? Would find results for "bird" and "birds".

[[#Ovid3|[iii]]] In OVID databases, use the '''#''' wildcard symbol to find variant spellings of a word. It can be placed inside or at the end of a search word. The '''#''' symbol must replace exactly one character (i.e., wom#n). So if you searched for: colo#r it would only find results for “colour”, but not color.

[[#Ovid4|[iv]]] In OVID databases, you may broaden or narrow your search by using the proximity searching operator Adj with a number 1-99. e.g. adj3 searches for terms within 3 words of each other in any order. ADJ without a number finds terms next to each other in specified order. http://site.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/osp/en/Content/syntax.htm#operators

'''PubMed'''

[[#PubMed1|[v]]] To create a wildcard search in PubMed, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for 0 or more characters in a term or phrase. In PubMed using the * truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. In PubMed using the '''*''' truncation symbol will prevent subject mapping of your search term. It will find the first 600 possible results and then stop searching. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#wildcards]]

[[#pubmed12|[xxii]]] When you enter search terms as a phrase, PubMed will not perform automatic term mapping that includes the MeSH term and any specific terms indented under that term in the MeSH hierarchy. For example, "climate change" will include citations that are indexed to the MeSH term, Climate Change, but will not include the more specific terms, e.g., Global Warming or Sea Level Rise [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#searching-for-a-phrase]]

[[#pubmed13|[xxiii]]] Does not work with the “All Fields” field code; limited to [Affiliation], [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields. [[/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching|https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#proximity-searching]]

'''PROQUEST databases'''

[[#Proquest1|[vi]]] In PROQUEST databases, you may add a number after your truncation symbol (i.e., *5) to restrict the search to a certain number of characters. For instance, the search: fish*4 would find fish, fishes, fishing, etc., but would not find longer results, such as "fish'''eries'''".

[[#Proquest2|[vii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard symbol to replace any single character, either inside or at the end of the search word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters. For example: nurse? would find: nurses, nursed, but not nurse; sm?th would find: smith and smyth; ad??? would find: added, adult, adopt.

[[#Proquest3|[viii]]] In PROQUEST databases, use '''NEAR/n''' or '''N/n''' to look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within "n" specified number of words apart. Replace "n" with a number. For example: nursing NEAR/3 education; media N/3 women.

[[#Proquest4|[ix]]] Use '''PRE''' or '''P''' to search for a term within specified number of words before a second term. '''Eg:''' nursing PRE/4 education

'''EBSCOHOST databases'''

[[#EBSCOHOST1|[x]]] Use '''#''' for alternate spellings. For example, colo#r finds – color/colour.

[[#EBSCOHOST2|[xi]]] In EBSCOHOST databases, use the '''?''' wildcard to find an unknown character. For example, type '''ne?t''' to find all citations containing '''neat''', '''nest''' or '''next'''. EBSCOhost does not find '''net''' because the wildcard replaces a single character.

[[#EBSCOHOST3|[xii]]] In EBSCOHOST databases The '''N5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another regardless of the order in which they appear. The '''W5''' proximity search finds the words if they are within ''five words'' of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

'''Engineering Village'''

[[#EngineeringV1|[xiii]]] In Engineering Village, Inspec database, search term stemming is automatic. Using truncation or wildcard characters automatically turns the “auto-truncation” off. You may also turn it off by selecting “auto-stemming>off”. To turn truncation off when not using a truncation or wild card character, put search terms in between quotation marks or braces {} – note that truncation characters and wildcards will not work within quotation marks or braces. You may use the * truncation character at the beginning or end of a search term. In addition, if you precede a word with the stemming character '''$''', you can pick up all forms of the word. '''Ex:''' $management , picks up manager, managed, etc.

[[#EngineeringV2|[xiv]]] '''ONEAR''' finds words in proximity to one another, in '''exact order''' entered.

'''Web of Science'''

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xv]]] In Web of Science databases you can use truncation in Title or Topic searches. You must enter at least three characters before and after a wildcard when using either left-hand truncation or right-hand truncation.

[[#WebOfKnowledge1|[xvi]]] The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.The question mark (?) represents any single character.The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character.

'''PEDro'''

[[#PEDro1|[xvii]]]
*In PEDro, truncation at the end of a word is automatic. 
*If you would like to truncate the beginning of the word - for example, if you wanted to find papers on edema, oedema, lymphedema or lymphoedema, type *edema in a text field. Note, that if you put an asterisk * at the beginning of a word, PEDro will not also find variants at the end of the word (that is, PEDro can’t simultaneously search for variants at the beginning and end of the same word). 
'''Google/Google Scholar'''

[[#Google1|[xviii]]] In Google, there are some additional wild cards you can use:#Search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, PPTs, or XLS, by adding '''filetype:''' and the 3-letter file abbreviation.
#Add a tilde sign ('''~''') immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as even more synonyms.
#Use the '''related:''' operator to find pages that have similar content by typing '''related:''' followed by the website address. For instance, if you find a website you like, try using '''related:[insert URL]''' to locate similar websites.
#If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include '''OR''' (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. You can also use the '''|''' symbol between words for the same effect.
#Include '''site:''' to search for information within a single website like all mentions of "Olympics" on the New York Times website. [ Olympics site:nytimes.com ] '''Tip:''' Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.
#Add a dash ('''-''') before a word to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.[ jaguar speed -car ].

'''Scopus'''
[[#scopus14|[xxiv]]] [[/blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar|https://blog.scopus.com/posts/6-simple-search-tips-lessons-learned-from-the-scopus-webinar]]

Preceding (Pre/n): The first word must be no more that (n) words apart from the second word

zika Pre/2 virus

This will find literature where ‘zika’ precedes ‘virus’ within 2 words, such as both “zika virus” and “zika and dengue virus”

Within (W/n): It doesn’t matter which word comes before the other

zika W/2 virus

This would look for ‘virus infection with zika,’ ‘Virus like zika,’ ‘virus, zika,’ ‘zika virus,’ etc.

'''Information in this guide is based on database and search engine help pages.'''

[[File:Library_Truncation_and_wildcards_handout_2013.pdf‎ ]]

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Credits: <ref>Beck, Charlotte and Longley, Kate, UBC Library. 2012 [online]. Truncation and Wildcard Symbols. Available from http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Truncation_and_Wildcard_Symbols [accessed on 4 September 2012].
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