Yes, wildcards are allowed in a text search. The use of wildcard characters can broaden your search.

• Use a question mark (?) to replace a single character.

  • For example, analy?e finds analyse or analyze.
• Use an asterisk (*) as a multi-character wildcard to replace characters anywhere in a word.

  • For example, behav* will find behave, behavior, behaviour, behavioural, behaviourism, etc.

The asterisk replaces 0 or more characters, so it can be used to find any number or to indicate a character that may or may not be present.

Example: h*emoglobin will find both hemoglobin and haemoglobin.

It would also find hemidemiphosphorylmontotremoglobin, if the word is used within a document.

Note: Only one wildcard can be included in a single term.

Note: Placing wildcards (? or *) inside quotation marks will not broaden your search. You will only retrieve the results for the exact text terms.