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Forming your search criteria:
You can perform detailed query
searches for those documents containing all of the words in your query.
Simply enter your criteria into any of the fields located on our search form and click
 . Your criteria can consist of
alphanumeric text, and may be preceded with and/or followed by a wild card character.
For example, let's say you're searching for any citations that include "Missile" in its abstract. You would enter the following:
Note a wild card character, an asterisk in this case, is used to indicate that you would like any abstract that includes the word "Missile". In addition to the standard searching options discussed above,
Keyword Searches are available on any fields that displays this symbol: 
A Keyword Search is simply a search that will look for all records
that include your search criteria within that field. There is no
need to add wild card characters. Each word that is separated by
spaces is considered as additional criteria. You have the option
to specify an "AND" or "OR" type of search. Let's look at the
following text entered within a Keyword Search field:
DoD Spending Projections
Because an "OR" search is the default, this would create a query
that looks for any records that have the words "DoD" OR "Spending"
OR "Projections" within that field. Therefore, records that have
"DoD" but not "Projections" will still be included. If the "AND"
option is selected, then it will look for any records that have
the words "DoD" AND "Spending" AND "Projections" within that
field. This is especially helpful when searching for more than
one author. And the reason why the Author field is a Keyword
Search field.
Wildcard characters can be included in your search criteria to
represent any character in a string. The string can consist of these characters:
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