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Title or Series
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For exact phrase searching use quotation marks " " around your search terms - ensuring that you check the Use Search Operators box.
Search results returned will contain all of the specified search terms in the title or series fields unless search operators such as 'OR' or 'NOT' are used (check Use Search Operators box). Using fewer search terms will return more results.
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Search results returned will contain all of the specified search terms in any of these fields. To broaden your search check the Use Search Operators box and use 'OR' and 'NOT' operators (see Search Operators help).
ISBN
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TSO Subscription Number
Enter a 7 digit TSO subscription number to search for a specific subscription publication.
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E.g subscription number 7901031 can be found by searching for '*031' or '7901*' etc.
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Legislation and Related Documents Published by TSO
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Search Operators - use to refine your search
- AND
- 'world AND population AND 2002' will only return results containing all three of these words.
- NOT
- 'population NOT european' will only return results containing 'population' that do not contain 'european'.
- OR
- 'population OR demographics' will return results containing either 'population' or 'demographics' or both.
- quotation marks " "
- "poverty and possibilities" will return results containing this exact phrase.
- asterisk * (wildcard)
- 'euro*' will return results containing 'euro', 'european', 'europe' and 'eurotunnel' etc.
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