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Truncation
and Wildcards
When added to the
stem of a word, a truncation symbol will find that
stem plus anything that comes after it. The symbol used to truncate
a word depends upon the index, database, or Web search engine you
are using.
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psychol? |
will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist.
! is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in Science
Direct. |
environ* |
will
return records on environment, environments, environmental.
* is used as the truncation symbol in The EBSCO Indexes and
Wilson Omnifile. |
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