How to use Advanced Search in PressReader

Advanced Search filters help you find content more effectively by offering more ways to search beyond keywords.

Follow these steps to use Advanced Search features:

• Open the search bar at the top of the screen and select “Advanced Search.”
• Choose from the below filters, based on the type of search you wish to make:
  

  • • Keyword search bar: Type a headline, column name or topic keywords to begin your search.

    • Languages: Focus your search on articles published in one or more specific languages from a list of over 60 languages.

    • Publication: Focus your search on articles published in one or more specific publications from a list of over 7,000 titles.

    • Date: Focus your search on a specific period. You can choose articles published today, in the last 3 days, this week, this month or any time.

    • Author: Focus your search on a specific author, journalist or columnist.

Follow these steps to use Boolean Search operators:

• Use Boolean operators like "AND", "OR" and "NOT" to further refine your search results. Always type the Boolean operator in uppercase. 
  • • AND: Use this when you want to find articles that contain all the search terms you're including. 
    • OR: Use this when you want to find articles that contain either of the search terms you're including. 
    • NOT: Use this to exclude articles that contain your search terms.

• Use parentheses, quotation marks and asterix to further specify your search:
  • • Parentheses: If you search for (earthquake OR tsunami) AND Japan, the search engine looks for documents that mention either earthquake or tsunami along with the term Japan. If you don't use parentheses, as in earthquake OR tsunami AND Japan, the engine will first find all documents that mention tsunami and Japan, and then include all documents that mention earthquake, whether or not they mention Japan.
    • Nested Parentheses: If you have a search like ((renewable OR solar) AND energy) NOT oil, the search engine first processes renewable OR solar, then adds AND energy, and finally excludes any results that include oil.
    • Phrase searching with Booleans: If you put a Boolean operator inside quotation marks, like "cats AND dogs", the operator is ignored because the search engine treats it as a phrase to search for exactly as it is.
    • Wildcard *: When you want to expand your search to include various suffixes of a word, use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard character. For example, if you search for environ* AND protection, the search engine will retrieve documents that contain any words starting with "environ" (such as environment, environmental, or environmentally) in conjunction with the word "protection". This allows for a more comprehensive search when you are looking for documents that may use variable endings of a particular word stem.