AccessUN Tutorial

Lesson 3: Subject Searching

Since English-language documents produced by the UN use both British and US spellings, searching for terms such as programme or program can be confusing. To overcome this problem, you may need to be creative and use truncation or wildcarding. Truncation is the use of certain symbols (?, *, or $) to replace one or more letters or characters. For more information, see AccessUN help on word variation.

Let's say you want information about the "World Solar Programme." You will want to search for this phrase in the Subject field and use truncation.

  1. In input box, type world solar program$. 
  2. In drop-down menu, choose in Subject.
  3. Click Search button.


 
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Created for LIS 316: Library Instruction and Assistance Systems.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 11/2000.
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