Advanced Search Tips

To enter your own search, just type in a few descriptive words and click on the search button for a list of relevant resources. As FastTrack only returns resources that contain all the words in your search, it is really easy to refine your search by adding more.

Choosing Keywords

For the best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Keep these tips in mind:

• Try the obvious first.
• Use words likely to appear on a site with the information you want.
• Make keywords as specific as possible.
• Searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood

The FastTrack search engine can help you find relevant documents and articles quickly. The search engine uses standard Boolean logic; therefore, the way that you phrase your search can make all the difference in finding the information you want quickly. For example, if you are interested in the topic of IP Management, you can structure your search in a variety of ways and get vastly different results.

If you search simply on IP Management, the search engine will return documents that contain either IP or Management. This may produce many more results than you care to look at. However, if you use quotation marks around your search terms as in "IP Management", the search engine will return only the records that contain the term IP Management. If you searched on IP AND Management, the search engine would return only documents that contain both the terms IP and Management.

You may also perform Negative searches by using the word NOT between search terms. For example, if you search on IP NOT Management this will retrieve all records containing the keyword IP but not the keyword Management.

Finally, you can perform compound searches. For example, you can search on IP AND Management NOT Product. This will retrieve any records containing both keywords IP and Management but will exclude any records that contain the word Product.

You may use the following symbols interchangeably with the text-based boolean operators.

• + is AND
• - is NOT