Universitywide Research Units Database

Two approaches, or a combination of each, are available for locating descriptions of and contact for UC research centers of interest. First, you may select centers of interest by technical focus area through the Keyword Search option. The keyword search accepts basic Boolean search queries (+, -, ""), explained below.

+
A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each record that is returned. The plus sign is implied in the absence of other Boolean characters in the query string. For example, +marine is the same as marine.

-
A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the records that are returned. For example, if you wanted to find all instances of biology without marine, the query would be +biology -marine

""
A phrase that is enclosed within quotation mark ("") characters matches only records that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. The match must include any non-word characters in the desired phrase. For example, "test phrase" does not match "test, phrase."

(no operator)
By default (when +, -, or "" are NOT specified), the word is optional, but the records that contain it are rated higher. For example, if you search for marine biology, the returned records will contain at least one of the words (marine but not biology, or vice versa).

Secondly, you may obtain a listing of UC centers associated with a particular UC site or number of sites by checking the appropriate Campus/Laboratory Search boxes(s) below. Finally, you may fine tune your search further by a combination of these two approaches.

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