Note: the following search operators can be used in FindIt, and most Databases.
Use quotation marks to search for your terms as an exact phrase. Great for title searches.
"to kill a mockingbird"
AND, OR, and NOT must be in all caps to be recognized as operators.
NSA OR "National Security Agency"
cellular NOT phone
Use parentheses to define the order of operations.
("Affordable Care Act" OR Obamacare) AND "birth control"
? matches a single character and * matches multiple characters.
feminis?
genom* mapping
Generally, you can include or omit punctuation marks and diacritics, and your search results will be the same. There are some exceptions: