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Welcome to the department search page. This page is designed to search only the Department of Communication Studies Web site. There are three areas that can be searched. The web pages, the news stories, and alumni news. Each of the searches have a separate submission process as outlined below.
The sytem can manage boolean searches. If you need a primer on the codes to use or some examples, see below.
| To search for all records | You would use | |
| containing the word interpersonal | interpersonal | |
| containing the letters org | org* | |
| containing the phrase interpersonal communication | "interpersonal communication" |
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| requiring the word mass | +mass | |
| excluding the word communication | -communication | |
| You can use more than one word or combine the above codes | +mass -communication +media | |
| "mass media" |
| + | The word is mandatory in all rows returned. |
| - | The word cannot appear in any row returned. |
| < | The word that follows has a lower relevance than other words, although rows containing it will still match |
| > | The word that follows has a higher relevance than other words. |
| () | Used to group words into subexpressions. |
| ~ | The word following contributes negatively to the relevance of the row (which is different to the '-' operator, which specifically excludes the word, or the '<' operator, which still causes the word to contribute positively to the relevance of the row. |
| * | The wildcard, indicating zero or more characters. It can only appear at the end of a word. |
| " | Anything enclosed in the double quotes is taken as a whole (so you can match phrases, for example). |
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