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Guide to International Fisheries Law: Search Centre |
The search facility contains both standard and (for members) advanced forms for searching the Guide. To perform a search, type what you are looking for into the search box - the Guide can be searched using single and multiple word searches. If you encounter difficulties or you would like to get more specific search results, try using one of the tips listed below. Results of searches are displayed in a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each item is listed under the document title, if one is available, and is linked to the matching document in the Guide. Please communicate any technical problems using this search facility to the webmaster.
Check spelling
Use multiple words
Use quotation marks
Use Boolean operators
Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. The search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms, but it is always best to try to spell the search terms correctly. Use multiple words
Use multiple words when performing your search. The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. For example, typing northwest atlantic fisheries will return more relevant results than typing only northwest. (NB. Keep in mind, however, that relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query terms - thus the more words you use, the more results will be returned.
Use
quotation marks
Use quotation marks to find words which must appear
adjacent to each other, for example, "highly migratory
species". Otherwise, the search results will include the words highly, migratory and species, but not
necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the
document.
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word
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stock |
Returns all documents containing that
word. Note that plural words are matched with singular words automatically
(and vice versa). So searching for "stock" includes searching for
"stocks" and "fishery" is considered the same as "fisheries". Words and
phrases are case insensitive. So "europe" is the same as "Europe" or "EUROPE".
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phrase
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straddling fish
stocks |
Returns all documents containing that
phrase. Note that quotes are not necessary, but if included, causes any
search operators to be treated as regular words. For example "straddling
fish stocks" (with the quotes) searches for that exact phrase. Without quotes
the search will be for all documents with straddling that also contain the words
fish and stocks (the words not necessarily appearing next to each other).
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AND
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Canada AND
straddling stocks |
Returns all documents that contain both
the first term and the second term. A "term" can be a single word or
complete phrase (no quotes are necessary around a phrase).
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OR
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treaties OR conventions |
Returns all documents that contain
either the first term or the second term or both. A "term" can be a single
word or complete phrase. Most useful when searching for synonyms of words.
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NOT
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straddling NOT
migratory |
Finds documents that contain the first
word, but do not contain the second. Occasionally useful to exclude
irrelevant documents that contain unique words or titles.
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NEAR
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camouco NEAR
itlos |
Returns all
documents where the first term appears nearby the second term. "Near"
corresponds to 50 words, which is intended to be roughly the size of a
paragraph. If two words are close together, then the chance of them being
related is increased. Useful when searching for
references to case names.
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W/n
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camouco w/5
itlos |
Returns all documents where the first term
appears within n words of the second term, where n
is a number you specify. So you could use "camouco w/10 itlos", "camouco w/50
itlos" (same as using near) or "camouco w/100 itlos". If two
words are close together, then the chance of them being related is
increased. Useful
when searching for references to case names.
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PRE/n
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fisheries pre/5 statistics |
Returns all documents where the first term
precedes the second term by no more than n words, where N is a
number you specify. This means that the first term must come before the
second term in the document, separated by no more than n
words. Examples might be "fisheries pre/10 statistics", "fisheries pre/50
statistics" or "fisheries pre/100 statistics".
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/n/
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itlos/10/precautionary |
Finds documents where words and phrases
appear within n words of each other (as in the old STATUS
system), where n is a number you specify. Similar in function
to W/n (see above).
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/m,n/
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itlos/-10,10/precautionary itlos/1,10/precautionary |
Finds documents where words and phrases
appear somewhere within m to n words of each other. You can
use a negative value for m to mean "this many words before the
second" and a positive value to mean "this many words after the second".
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TITLE( ... )
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title(nasco) nasco@title |
Limits the search to document titles only. The example will find all those files with the word "nasco" in the title. | ||||||
punctuation
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[ ] { } ^ + - , |
As a general
rule, omit all punctuation in your searches by replacing them with spaces,
since some characters have a special meaning that could yield unpredictable
results. (See SINO Documentation for information on the special meaning of
many symbols. ).
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