Banner Health FAQs

Includes information on Google Operators, Building a Search string, Verbatim Tool, Specific Date Range, Google Alerts, Adding Google Results to Endnote

Google Operators

"Double quote "nested""

intext:must include this word (no space after :)

Searches only within the page and not things linking to the page

after:2019-05-06 (after:YEAR-month-Day)

before:

Example

"winter is coming" after:2019-04-22 before:2019-06-21

site:edu 

site:loc.gov montana (see example below)

In this example, you will be searching for the word "montana" only on websites ending in loc.gov

site:nris.mt.gov soils

site:/mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral

* for word wildcard, a word in-between, equivalent to NEAR/1 (Google does not have a character wildcard or at least that I have have found yet)

site:lib.*.edu

site:*libguide.com

filetype:ppt or filetype:pptx

allintext:

title:

allintitle:

|    Can be used to replace OR

Example 1

allintext:proximal around(3) interphalangeal around(3) joint spacer OR silicone OR spacers OR prosthetic OR arthroplasty OR implant OR implants OR prosthesis OR arthroplastic -site:nih.gov 

Example 2

allintext:ICU|"critical care" sedation|sedative|analgesic pharmacist "mechanical ventilation"|"artificial ventilation" 

Example 3

Verbatim Search

Search exactly as I said and DO NOT spell correct

Specify Date Range

Add Google Results to Endnote 

Use Publish or Perish to download citation to Endnote  

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rrhWHrN190  

Google Alert

google.com/alerts

Created by Amy 2019-11-08, Updated 2021-9-15, 2022-9-16