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How can I search for specific online resources / databases? I know the name of a database, how can I best find it?

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This search engine recognizes stop words such as ('a','about','an','are','as','at','be','by','for','from','how','I','in','is','it','la','of',
'on','that','the','this','to','was','what','when','where','who','will','with')
stop words will be ignored by a search unless the term is in quotes
Examples:
Without quotes
ie:      field of study  becomes: field study
Without quotes the term 'of' is removed from the search

With quotes it will search for the exact phrase
ie: "The bible"

Boolean Searching is supported
You can use AND, OR, or NOT, but not both AND & OR together (at present) Case does not matter.
ie:  biology AND chemistry
ie   biology OR chemistry
but not:  biology AND chemistry OR math
ie:  dictionary NOT religion

By default, each search term has an implicit wildcard * at the end of each search term (except when used with quotes)
ie:    bio AND chem implicitly searches
   bio* AND chem*
which will search for terms like:
   biological, biology etc. AND chemical, chemistry etc..
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