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Enter a word or phrase and select specific fields to focus your search and get the most useful and relevant results. You can use more than one entry box to build a Boolean search: select and to retrieve all of the terms in every entry, select or to retrieve any of the terms, and select not to exclude a particular term.
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Enter a word or phrase and select options to focus your search.
When using the All - Smart Search query do not use truncation symbols or other special characters. The Wilson All - Smart Search query will automatically search those options. Simply type the word or phrase that you are interested in and click Start. The search results will automatically show the most relevant articles at the top of the set when the Sort by Relevance option has been selected.

Your results will be displayed according to your choices and the Citation Display settings. To create a new search, click Advanced Search,  Basic Search, or Browse in the toolbar on the left. Searches can be further narrowed, expanded, or combined in the Search History screen. Any search can be saved for up to 6 months.

Sample Searches

Example 1:
Enter investigative services in the first entry box and security in the box below, with and as the operator between the boxes.
Select Subject(s) in the as: drop-down boxes on the right.
Leave all the other options at the default settings.
Click Start.
Your search retrieves all records with both terms as subjects and includes stemmed variations of those terms. The results with a 100% relevancy ranking will have an exact match on your terms.

Example 2:
Enter employee in the first entry box and training in the box below, with and as the operator between the boxes.
Select Subject(s) in the as: drop-down boxes on the right.
Under Limit to: check the box next to Full Text.
Click Start.
Your search retrieves all records with full text articles with the subjects employee training. Results ranked at 100% will be an exact match.

Example 3:
Enter recruitment in the first entry box.
Under Document Type, select Symposium from the drop-down menu.
Click Start.
The results ranked at 100% mean an exact match on the subject recruitment in records from a symposium.

Notes:

You might see different relevancy rankings in your search results.
Within specific relevancy rankings (if this default sort order is used) there is a secondary sort of records by date in descending order.