ENDS Waste & Bioenergy search help

Searching Articles

You can use the site search to search the archive of ENDS Waste & Bioenergy. You can search using keywords and refine the results returned by using search filters on the right hand side of the screen. 

Tips and Tricks

Using Operators

You can create even more sophisticated searches using operators, which are special words used in the search/keyword field such as "AND" to ensure the search works in a specific way.

OR 

This operator allows a search to return results that contain any of the search terms you provide. However it is the default and therefore you do not need to provide it.  

Example: A search for Natural OR England is the same as Natural England since the search defaults to the OR operator

AND 

This operator ensures that all words can be found in each of the search results  

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the word water and pollution - but not necessarily in that order or next to each - just somewhere in the article.  
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  water AND pollution

+ 

The "+ " operator ensures the term after the "+" symbol exists somewhere in each search result.  

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the word permit but may or may not contain the word environmental.  
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  +permit environmental

- 

The "-" operator ensures the term after the "-" symbol DOES NOT exists somewhere in each search result.  

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the word permit but must not contain advice.  
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  permit -advice

NOT 

The "NOT" operator excludes words that you do NOT want to be found anywhere in the search results.  

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the word biodiversity but DO NOT contain research.  
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  biodiversity NOT research

Phrases 

If you wish to search against multiple words as an exact phrase, you can do this using double quote marks "..."  

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the exact phrase "Environment Agency" 
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  "Environment Agency"

Combining operators - Advanced Searches

You can combine the operators above to create complex, grouped searches using parentheses.

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the phrase Environment Agency and MUST mention permit 
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  "Environment Agency" AND permit 

Example: You wish to search for articles that contain the phrase Environment Agency AND either permit or pollution 
Solution: Enter this into the keywords field:  "Environment Agency" AND (permit OR pollution)