Enter the asterisk * immediately (without a space) before and/or after a part of a word (for example its stem) to include different word forms in the search results.

Ex.: cult* will return all documents containing the words 'cult', 'culture', 'cultural', 'Culturelink', etc., while *ation would find 'creation', 'education', 'communication', 'association' and so forth.

Placing a composite expression in quotation marks "" will limit the results of the search exclusively to documents containing the entire expression or the requested words in a specific order, not returning documents containing only some of the words listed.

Ex. "Culturelink Network" will return only those documents which contain the compound expression, i.e. both words adjacent to each other in the given order, while results for Culturelink Network (without quotation marks) would include documents containing one or the other word, as well as those containing both words in arbitrary order anywhere within the document.

Enter the plus sign + immediately (without a space) before a word or composite expression (in quotation marks) which should be included in the search results.

Ex.: council +arts will find all documents containing the word 'council' provided they also contain the word 'arts', thus returning documents concerning arts councils but not necessarily those about the British Council.

Enter the minus sign - immediately (without a space) before a word or composite expression (in quotation marks) which should not be included in the search results.

Ex.: council -arts will return all documents containing the word 'council' provided that they do not contain the word 'arts', so the results will not display documents about arts councils in general, but will include the ones concerning the British Council.

For the specified part of a document enter (without a space) the keyword, immediately followed by a colon and the searched word or expression (in quotation marks). The following keywords are allowed:

• title: for the document title,
• body: for the document body text,
• url: for the document address,
• desc: for the meta content description,
• keys: for the meta keywords of the document,
• alt: for alternative text (image description etc.).

Ex. title:"Culturelink Network" will return all documents entitled 'Culturelink Network' (as displayed in the browser's title bar).

If the search term is entered in small letters, the search results will also include documents containing the capitalized expression, but a search term starting with a capital letter will not return documents containing the expression written all in small letters.

Ex. Euro will return all documents containing the word written with a capital E (for example at the beginning of a sentence), but will not return those containing the currency name within a sentence written with a small starting letter, while euro will find all documents containing either 'euro', 'Euro' or 'EURO'.