Query commands
Basic searching
The easiest query involves simply specifying one or more keywords.
For example the query with the keywords
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astronomy
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will find the meta-library entries with the string "astronomy" in its
author, title, topic, or description fields. By specifying two
keywords, one can search for the entries containing both. For example,
the query
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bio databases
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will find all biology databases in the meta-library.
Note that all searchs are case insensitive.
Field names
One can reduce the search to consist of a certain field by using the
author, title, and topic keywords. To look for entries authored by the United
States Central Intellegence Agency (CIA), one can do the query
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author cia
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To look for the entry "Zen and the Art of Internet", one can to the seach
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title zen internet
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Connectors
The meta-library understands the connections "and" "or" "not". These
connectors can be combined with field names. To look for William
Shakespeare's "Complete Works" for example, one can to a search on
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author shakespeare and title complete
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