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ONESearch using Primo VE

Information useful to faculty, students and liaison librarians

Wildcards

ONESearch supports wildcard characters to expand your search:

  • the question mark (?) 
  • the asterisk (*)

Wildcards cannot be the first character, nor within a phrase search.

The question mark (?) matches any one character. Ex.: Find Olsen or Olson using Ols?n. It will not find Olsson because there are two characters between and n.

The question mark (?) isn't used at the end of a word, to avoid confusion when a question mark is a punctuation. Ex.: the ? in a search for who's afraid of virginia woolf? (with or without double quotes) is a punctuation mark, not a wildcard. The final term= woolf.

The asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters within a word or the end of a word. Ex.: Ch*ter = CharterCharacter, and Chapter.

At the end of a word, the * includes all possible characters

Ex.: Temp* = TemptationTemple, and Temporary.