Lexis Advance search connectors
/S – Words or terms must be within the same sentence
Eg hearsay /s exceptions will produce results where both words are in the same sentence
/P – Words or terms must be within the same paragraph
Eg hearsay /p exceptions will produce results where both words are in the same paragraph
AND – Both words or terms must be present within the same document
Eg Gillard and Swan will produce results where both words appear in the same document
OR – At least one of the words or terms must be present within the same document
Eg NSW or New South Wales will produce results where one or other of the words is present in the same document
! or *– Truncation - searches all possible endings to a word
Eg crim! retrieves all words beginning with crim……eg crime, crimes, criminal, criminality etc
? - Wildcard – searches all possible letters that could populate a space within a word
Eg wom*n retrieves woman or women
(Note: more than 1 * can be used in a word and * can be used at the beginning or end of a word)
AND NOT – Excludes a word or term
Eg mining and not Rinehart retrieves all documents that have the word mining but do not have the word Rinehart anywhere in the text
/N – words or terms must be within a certain number of words
Eg swan /5 budget will retrieve results where swan and budget are within 5 words of each other
(Note: either term can appear first)