Searching Tips
- Type UK at the end of your search terms if you do not need
to search the whole of the Web
- Use specific words if you know them as opposed to general ones
e.g. "The British Journal of Criminology" would take you straight
to relevant web sites more quickly than "Legal Journals"
- When searching for an exact phrase, enclose it in double quotes
e.g. A search on Legal Aid returns all pages with either legal
or aid in any order somewhere on the page (with pages containing
all the words ranked higher). To find the exact phrase, enter:
"Legal Aid"
- Use the "+" (plus) sign before each word that your results
MUST contain
e.g. If you want to search for Scottish Legal Aid, enter:
+"Legal Aid" +Scottish
- Use the "-" (minus) sign before each word that your results
should NOT contain
e.g. If you want to search for information about the Woolf reforms,
enter:
+Woolf -Virginia, and you will be spared the literary articles.
!! When using these options, leave a space before the plus or minus
sign but do not leave any space between the sign and the following word.
When checking out the results, to find the words you are searching
for in the document use Find (on this Page)
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Click on the Edit menu and select Find (on this Page).
Enter the words again and click on Find Next..
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