The asterisk (*) and the question mark (?) can be used as wildcards for the search.

The asterisk (*) can replace zero, one, or multiple characters:

For example, it can be used to search for culture, cultures, cultural, etc.

Note: For technical reasons, using an asterisk (*) at the end of a search term may return fewer results when using the swisscovery plus scope.

The asterisk (*) can also be used to find different spellings of a word.

searches for yogurt, yoghurt, yogourt, yoghourt, etc.

The question mark (?) is a wildcard that replaces a single character:

searches for both woman and women.

You can also combine the asterisk (*) and the question mark (?):