The search box above allows you to search for keywords within the Publications, Members and Terms databases. The checkboxes let you select either the Publications database, or the Members database or the Terms database or any combination. If none are checked, the search will assume you want to search only the Publications database.

You may enter one or more keywords, separated by one space, in the search text box above. You can then press the Enter key or click on the "GO" button to initiate a search.

Normally the search engine will only return database entries that contain a match for ALL of the keywords entered. The keyword may appear anywhere within the database entry, and case is not significant. So entering the keyword ab will match on words like absolute and taxicab and fabricate.

For the Publications database, the search engine will look in the SUBJECT, ARTICLE TITLE, SUMMARY and AUTHOR fields for matches.

For the Members database, the search engine will look in the ORGANIZATION, MEMBER NAME and SERVICES fields for matches.

For the Terms database, the search engine will look in the ENGLISH field for matches.

When searching through the Members and Terms database it is sometimes useful to be able to search for names or terms that begin with a sequence of letters. For example, companies that begin with American. Any keyword that ends with an asterisk will match this way in the Members and Terms databases. So to find companies like the example above, use the keyword American*. The keyword A* finds all companies that begin with A, etc. When you use this kind of "begins with" keyword in the Members database it will only be matched against the ORGANIZATION and LAST NAME.