ABC-CLIO

America History and Life/Historical Abstracts

?

One character

*

Infinite characters

Agricola

*

Infinite characters

Catalog of US Government Publicatoins

*

Infinite characters

CIOS

Comm Abstracts/Journal Indexes

*

Infinite characters (multiple words)

~

Infinite characters (single word)

EBSCOhost

Academic Search Premier, PsychInfo, etc.

?

One character

*

Infinite characters

Emerald

*

Infinite characters

bigChalk

Electric Library

?

One character

*

Infinite characters

Facts on File Reference Suite

*

Infinite characters

FirstSearch

Article1st, Medline, etc.

?

0-9 characters (use with a number to specify the number of characters)

*

Infinite characters (must have a 3 character root)

+

Plural forms of words, unless the root changes

(wax+ works, mouse+ doesn’t)

#

One character

Gale

Health & Wellness Resource Center

*

Infinite characters

?

Exactly one character

!

One or no characters

JSTOR

+

Finds plurals for all English words

Kraus Curriculum Development Library

*

Infinite characters (including phrases)

Lexis-Nexis

!

Infinite characters

*

One character

Music Index

$

Infinite characters

?

One character

Ovid

+

One required character

?

One or zero characters

$

Infinite characters (designate the number of characters by placing a number after $ ($3). 

Project Muse

*

Infinite characters after a root (cannot be used within the word)

ProQuest

Research Library, CINAHL, ABI/Inform

*

One character

?

Infinite characters

WebSpirs

MLA, Bio Abs, Readers Guide, etc.

*

Infinite characters

?

One character