Finding Theses or Dissertations: Truncation Symbols

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Truncation

Example

Wildcard

Examples

Notes:

Cochrane

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Arter* = arteries, artery, arterial etc.

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Ag?ing = ageing -the British spelling.

To retrieve both American spelling and British search aging or ageing Or aging or ag?ing

Ebsco-

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Theat* = theater , theaters, theatre, theatres, or theatrical….

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Theat?? = theater-American spelling and theatre- British spelling.

Note : searching

colo#r  will retrieve color and colour.

JSTOR

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Twain* =Twain’s and Twain….

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Wom?n = womyn, woman, women.

Lexis Nexis

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Twitt! = twit, twitter, twitter’s, twitterers, twittering….

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Ba**le = battle

Transplant** = transplanted, transplanted….

OVID

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Attitude: = attitude, attitudes….Inject$ = injectable, inject, injection, injections etc.

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Col?r = both color and colour.

For Nursing Full-Text Plus Database. Mapping needs to be turned off . Dog$1 will search for only one extra letter.

ProQuest

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Teen*=teen, teens, teenagers etc.

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Educat??=educator, educated but NOT education.

Kdc 8/6/

 Science Direct

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 s*c*rt= subcohort, statechart, selectsort, etc.

scien*=scientific, science, scientist, scientists

 exerc?s?? = exerciser, exercised,

 The symbol used once replaces one letter but used twice together replaces two.  These can be interspaced within one word.

6/09