AMERICAN RESTROOM ASSOCIATION
Query Language Search Engine    

Use the above form to do a full NARA search.  This search includes and will list non-publicized NARA  pages

Use specific words or combinations of words.  Results will display as weighted list of all matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed.

Advanced Search Features

How to make the most of the NARA's  Query Language Search Engine

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval - 

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

 

information or retrieval

same as above

 

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

 

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

 

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

 

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'