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Please Note:
Our search engine is part of a larger search engine used by the University of Maryland that has been configured to only search the pages of the Academy's Web site. Your results will be displayed within the main University of Maryland search results page. Simply click on one of the listed results to return to the Academy's website.
Advanced search options are available after a simple search has been conducted. Click the "advanced search" link above the search box at the top of the results page. Advanced options allow the search to be expanded or narrowed by allowing the user to employ some Boolean operators, search by languages, etc.
The University has provided the following tips for using this search engine. These tips apply whether you are conducting a
simple search, above, or using an advanced search option later.
1. Type in a few words or phrases. Try to use discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek. The more words you give, the better results you'll get. Here are some examples:
Search by typing words and phrases.
book on President Clinton by James MacGregor Burns and Georgia Sorenson
This search engine will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so that the documents most relevant to your query are presented first. Don't worry about missing a document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search -- this search engine returns relevant results even if they don't contain all query terms.
Identify phrases with quotation marks, separated with commas.
"President Clinton," "James MacGregor Burns," "Georgia Sorenson"
A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, and only matches those words which appear adjacent to each other. Separate multiple phrases or proper names with a comma.
Use UPPER case to indicate exact match.
James MacGregor Burns, NeXT
Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case, otherwise an exact case match is used. For example, next will find matches for Next, next, and NeXT, whereas a query for NeXT will only match NeXT.
For more search tips please visit the University's user help page.
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