The search will, by default, return results that contain ANY of the search terms you provide:
e.g. typing the words 'Family' and 'Planning' and searching the Title will return titles that contain either of these words. The default setting for the results is Relevance, so those results that have more of the words in the result will be higher in the list.
Boolean Searches
You can obtain much more precise results by using Boolean searching:
placing a '+' directly before a word means the result MUST contain this word: e.g. searching titles for '+Family +Planning' will return only the publications that have BOTH 'Family' and 'Planning' in the title.
placing a '-' directly before a word means the result MUST NOT contain this word. e.g. searching titles for '+Family -Planning' will return only the publications that have 'Family' but NOT 'Planning' in the title.
an asterisk * at the end of a searchterm functions as a wildcard. Searching for 'socio*' will return results that contain 'socioeconomic', 'Socio-Demographic', etc.
putting double quotes " around a search term means the result must contain the precise term. e.g. searching titles for '"Monitoring and Evaluation"' will ONLY return results that have that precise phrase in the title.
placing a greater than sign > directly before a search term increases a term's relevance in the search. e.g. 'monitoring evaluation >aids' will return results containing any of these words, but will rank those containing the word 'aids' higher.
placing a less than sign < directly before a search term decreases a term's relevance in the search. e.g. 'monitoring evaluation <aids' will return results containing any of these words, but will rank those containing only the word 'aids' lower.
