MAGELLAN

Search EngineCombining Terms Using AND, OR, NOTUsing + and -TruncationAdjacencyProximitySpecifying fields to search
MagellanAND, AND NOT, OR must be in capital letters; parentheses for grouping okYesNoYes; Place double quotes around phrasesNoNo
































Magellan AND (must be capitalized) Example: political AND cartoons
finds everything with BOTH words "political" AND "cartoons"
Magellan OR (must be capitalized) Example: political OR cartoons
finds everything with EITHER of the words "political" OR "cartoons"
Magellan AND NOT (must be capitalized) Example: political AND NOT cartoons
finds everything with the word "political" AND NOT the word "cartoons"





























Magellan Plus Sign "+" (Boolean AND) Example: +Bart Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them, weighting those with "Simpson" more heavily
Magellan Minus Sign "-" (Boolean NOT) Example: Bart -Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them but without the word "Simpson"
Magellan Plus "+" and Minus Sign "-" Example: +animation -Simpsons
finds files with "animation" in them, but NOT "Simpsons"





























Magellan truncation apparently not available.





























Magellan Adjacency Example: "political cartoons"
finds the phrase where the word "political" precedes the word "cartoons"





























Magellan proximity searching apparently not available.





























Magellan field searching apparently not available.