Search looks in documents in the Oak-Net Index to find the information that you are looking for.

Search Tips:

Get exactly what you want: Using quotation marks (" ") around the search terms gives exact matches.
For instance "Elder Abuse" will bring up all articles relating to those exact words.

Trim the results: Using the minus sign (-) in front of words you don't want will trim results containing that word.
For instance Elder -Care will bring up all articles concerning divorce that do not contain the word care.

Add common words: Using the plus sign (+) in front of a word will ensure it occurs in the results. The search will
trim out common words like "the" "and" and "or". To compel it to search for common words you can place a plus
sign in front of that word. +The Constitution will bring up results containing both The and Constitution.

Synonym Search: Using the tilde sign (~) in front of a word will search for synonyms of that word. For instance ~senior will bring up all articles concerning kids, child, offspring, dependants etc.

Find one or the other: Using OR in capital letters will search for documents with one word or the other. For instance Physical Abuse OR Harm will find all articles with the words "Physical Abuse" or "Physical Harm". OR applies to the two words it comes between. Physical OR Abuse Harmwill apply OR to physical and abuse.

Fill in the blank: Using an asterisk (*) will indicate to the search engine to fill in the blank. For instance Abuse of * will return all articles that contain the phrase "Abuse of" and any word after. The * represents a wild card.

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