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Racial Equity Tools is a large site that will continue to grow as new resources are made available.

To help you locate the information you need, we provide four powerful tools:

1. Site Map - the Site Map page displays the hierarchical structure of this site and provides direct links to every page. This is often the best place to look first for information. Wherever you are in the site, go to the Site Map and you are one mouse clicks from any other page.
2. Glossary - the Glossary page provides excellent definitions of many of the specialized terms and phrases that are used in this site.
3. Site Search - Below, in the left panel, is the Site Search facility. Use this search to locate information anywhere in the entire site: page titles, page text, resource links, glossary entries, etc.
4. Resource Search - Below, in the right panel, is the Resource Search facility. This search only locates information in the resource links. It will match criteria in the resource title or website address, resource author, and resource keywords.

Search Tips:

If you enter a single word as your search criterion, the search engine will try to find exact matches for the word.

If you enter several words as your search criteria, by default the search engine will first try to find exact matches for all of the words. If that fails, it will then try to find matches for any of the words.

There are several ways to modify the default search behavior:

• Phrase Search. There are three types of phrase search:
  • To match an exact phrase, use quotes around the words:
       Example: "the beautiful cat" will only match instances of: the beautiful cat.
  • To match an near (within a couple of words) phrase, use square brackets around the words:
       Example: [the beautiful cat] will match: the very beautiful Persian cat
  • To match a far (within several of words) phrase, use braces around the words:
       Example: {the beautiful cat} will match: the beautiful blue eyes of the Siamese cat
• + and - qualifiers:
  • If you prepend a word with + that word must be present in the page or resource searched:
       Example: +beautiful Siamese cat will not match: the Siamese cat
  • If you prepend a word with - that word must not be present in the page or resource searched:
       Example: -beautiful Siamese cat will not match: the beautiful Siamese cat
• * wildcard:
  • If you follow a string of characters with *, then all words beginning with that string will be matched:
       Example: cat* will match: cats, catalog, catastrophe, cattle, etc.
• ? wildcard:
  • If a search word contains a ?, it will match any character in that position:
       Example: p?n will match: pan, pen, pin, pun, etc.
• Boolean search:
  • You can use AND, OR, NOT (in capital letters) in your search criteria.
       Example: racial AND equity will match only if both words are present.    Example: racial OR equity will match if either or both words are present.    Example: racial AND NOT equity will match only if racial is present and equity is not present.

All of these techniques can be combined in the criteria.