Use the form above to search for documents containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed.

For a brief explanation of the Verity Query Language, please refer to the Quick Hints Guide listed below. For a more detailed explanation, refer to the Verity Query Language Reference Guide. If you are new to the fundamentals of search queries review Getting Started with Queries.

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Quick Hints on Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval
finds documents containing 'information retrieval'
information or retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'
information and retrieval
finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'
information and not retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'
(information and not retrieval) and Verity
finds documents containing 'Verity', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'
web*
finds documents containing words starting with 'web'