Articles, prepositions and other stop words⚓

All the terms of a record are indexed and can therefore be searched, except for stop words.

Stop words are articles, pronouns, prepositions, in general words which are so commonly used that they have no impact on the relevancy of the search query.

If they are ignored, that is so as to avoid searching for them and thereby avoid displaying irrelevant information.

Nonetheless, in Sudoc, some descriptive elements of records have been indexed without using stop words, as these can be significant, for example for a search query on the title words.