Search Hints
Case: Searches are NOT case-sensive.
Phrase: If you enter more than one word, they will be searched as
a phrase with the last word right-truncated.
Truncation: If you enter one word, it will be searched right-truncated.
Shorten word to get more: Because of right-truncation, it is
often best to truncate longer
words; e.g., search for instruct in order to find entries
with "instruction" or "instructional"; search for
geograph
to get entries with "geography" or "geographical." Note, again:
single word searches are truncated; in mulitple word (phrase)
searches, only the last word in the phrase is truncated.
URLs: You can search for URLs or partial URLs. For instance,
a search on
census.gov
would retrieve
all those items that we have indexed that have
"census.gov" in the URL, and searching for
census
would get any items that have "census" in the URL,
but searching for
ensus.gov would retrieve
nothing.
Browsing Categories: The categories (data, searchable catalogs, data
archives, vendors,
social science gateways) are useful when you'd rather browse than
search. Just click the category to get a complete list.
Searching Categories: When you search you are searching all items in
all categories.
