Wildcards
Wildcards offer the ability to substitute a character as a stand in for any word or letter in a keyword. This can be helpful in compensating for different spellings of words. For example, the word colour is spelled color in American English.
By using a wildcard, you can ensure that your search result reflects this.
A wildcard is usually a question mark or a hash symbol. This will vary from one database to another - check the help section of each individual database.
A search phrase can be as follows:
- col?r
- col#r
Other example are as follows:
| Keyword | Results |
| wom?n | woman, women |
| globali?ation | globalisation, globalization |
| p?diatric | paediatric, pediatric |
