WFN Advanced Search Help
Using ht://Dig

Words - Type the word(s) you wish to search for in the space provided.

A hit is a match to your search word(s). Or, more accurately, the ht://Dig search engine finds documents with your search word(s) in the text. It gives documents it estimates are most relevant a high score, and documents that only slightly match a lower score.

Match

Format

Sort By

All - (default) Searches for documents that include all of the words entered
Any - Searches the documents for any of the words entered
Boolean - You may use Boolean expressions to describe exactly what you are searching for using the operators AND, OR, and NOT.
You can combine your search words using these operators. Use parentheses (nesting) to further refine your search by creating
sets.

A search for "(library or office) and (hours or open)" finds all documents that contain either library or office AND either open or hours.

Here are some examples of Boolean searches:

library and hours
hours or open
(library or office) and (hours or open) 
(library not office) and hours

Long - (default) Displays the document headlines and first few lines of text

Short - Displays only the headlines of documents

Score - (default) Displays the results in order from most hits in the searched documents to the least hits.
Time - Most recent headlines will be displayed first with the oldest at the bottom.
Title - Headlines are displayed in alphabetical order. If a headline begins with a character such as a quotation mark
or asterisk it will be at the top of the listing. 
Reverse Score - Same as the score option, however the least hits are displayed first.
Reverse Time - Oldest headlines will appear at the top of the search report list.
Reverse Title - Headlines appear in the opposite alphabetical order of the "Title" search.