Use the form below to search for documents on the Berkana website.  You can use specific words or combinations of words. The search results will show the most relevant matches first.  For help on what words to use to search you can scroll below.

Query Language

Our search engine allows searches to be formed from arbitrary expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example, searching for the following terms in bold will result in...

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'