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• In DSpace, the most confusing concept regarding search fields is the keyword search.
• In the basic search boxes (as seen below), any terms entered are searched for anywhere within any of the search indices (i.e. any of the

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  search.index.#

  fields in dspace.cfg), or the full text of the document (if it is full-text indexable). These search boxes perform what most refer to as a keyword or keyterm search.
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• However, to make things a little confusing, you'll notice a keyword search index listed in dspace.cfg:

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  search.index.4 = keyword:dc.subject.*

  This (rather inappropriately named) index is actually used during subject specific searches (hence the

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  subject.*

  ). It does not have any control over a normal keyword search that is run from the basic search box in DSpace.