Wildcard and Truncation Characters

ProQuest supports the use of wildcard and truncation characters to stand in for letters in your search words.

* Truncation

Use the truncation character, *, to find documents containing several words with the same root. The * replaces zero or more characters at the end of a word.

Example

Type educat* to find educator, educated, and education.

? Wildcard

Use the wildcard character, ?, in place of a single character in your search terms, when more than one letter is likely to fit that space.

Example

Type educat?? to find documents containing educator and educated. This Search will not find education.

Unlike truncation characters, you can use wildcard characters in the middle of words.

Example

Type wom?n to find documents containing the words woman, women, and womyn.