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Here are some examples of the type of queries you can make against a collection.

Searching for words, and phrases
"plutonium" Searches for all documents containing the word "plutonium" anywhere in the document. explosive Searches all selected collections for any word that has the same stem as the word "explosive" (e.g. explosive, explosives, explosion). "Los Alamos" Searches all selected collections for the phrase "Los Alamos". "discrimination", harassment, "equal opportunity" Searches for the word "discrimination", or words that have the same stem as "harassment", or the phrase "equal opportunity". will return the results of the search as list of documents in rank order. The documents that contain all three words/phrases will rank higher than documents that contain only two of the words/phrases, and so on.
Searching by field name
Some Explorer documents have identified fields (e.g., title, author, id). You can search these fields directly with the contains operator. 3300 <in> id Returns all documents with "3300" in the ID field. "foreign travel" <in> title Returns all documents with the phrase "foreign travel" in the title field. Date Searching 01/01/1997 - 01/01/1999 Returns all documents with issue dates 01/01/1997 through 01/01/1999.