You can search an entire document, or limit your search to author names, journal and book titles, volume, issue, or page number fields using Quick Search. Searchable content includes all available journals , book series , handbooks , books, and reference works .
To run a more precise search or search other fields, use the Advanced or Expert search forms.
Tip: Click the Advanced Search link on the Quick Search form to go to the Advanced search form.
When you enter search terms in multiple fields an 'AND' connector is automatically included in your search query.
For example | If you enter Author: smith and Volume: 4, your search will be for articles that have "Smith" in their author field and that have "4" in their volume field. |
To find documents that contain your terms in any field, use the All fields field.
If you enter multiple terms in the All fields field, Quick Search will include an 'AND' connector in your search query.
Example | If you enter heart attack oxygen, your search will be for articles having occurrences of "heart AND attack AND oxygen". |
To search for a matching or exact phrase, enclose the term in brackets ({}). See Searching for Phrases for more information.
Example | To locate occurrences of the phrase "heart attack", enter {heart attack}. |
Searches for documents written by an author. Quick Search will find results where both search terms are present in the document even if they are in separate author fields.
Tip: An author search format example appears in a tooltip when your pointer is on the Author field.
Example | Searching for J Smith using Quick Search would find results such as: T. Smith, J. Rolf. |
To find authors where all your search terms are in the same field, use the Specific Author field on the Advanced search form or the Specific-Author field on the Expert search form. See Searching for Names for more information.
Searches for documents in a specific volume of a journal or book.
Example | Entering Volume: 34 will return documents with a volume number of "34". |
Searches for documents in a specific issue of a journal or book.
Example | Entering Issue: 4 will return documents with an issue identifier of "4". |
Searches for documents with specific page numbers.
Example |
Entering Page: 9 will return documents with page numbers, such as:
Entering Page: v will return documents with page numbers, such as:
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Searches for a specific journal or book title. This field returns either articles or journal and book titles depending on which Quick Search fields are populated.
As you type your journal or book title, a list of titles that match your entry will display. The beginning of each word in the title will be searched for a match, so ‘info’ would return Information and Computation and Journal of Biomedical Informatics. To choose one of the titles, select the title from the list.
Note: You must have JavaScript™ enabled in your browser for a list of matching titles to display.
Articles: If search terms are entered in the other Quick Search fields (including the Journal/book title field), the search will return articles.
Example | Entering All fields: dopamine and Journal/book title: neuro will return articles with occurrences of "dopamine" and also with "neuro" in the journal or book title. |
Journal and book titles: If search terms are available only in the Journal/book title field, the search will return journal/book titles.
Example |
Entering only neuro in the Journal/book title field will return journals and books with "neuro" in the journal or book title, including:
You do not have to enter the entire title. For example, entering neuro bio will return all titles that include all those letters. |
Searching a specific journal or book: When the text --This Journal/Book-- appears in the Journal/book title search field and you are on a journal or book home page, entering search terms in the other Quick Search fields will search only articles in that journal or book.
Note: If you enter only spaces in the other fields, the spaces will be ignored.
You can use many of the Boolean syntax rules when building a Quick Search.
Choose search terms which are specific or closely related to the topic of interest.
Use the singular form of the word.
Omit stop words from your search string.
Use connectors.
Prioritize your search terms.
Use wildcard characters to combine or eliminate search terms.
Note: Do not use wildcard characters in a Journal/book title search.
Observe the rules for searching special characters and formulas.
Note: Numeric data are searchable only as text.
Titles returned in the search results match all terms in a multiple-term search string.
Example |
If you enter chemical engineering in the search box, the search results may include the following titles:
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Terms in a multiple-term search string must be entered in the order in which they appear in titles.
Example | In the chemical engineering search example, a journal titled, "The Engineering and Chemical Processing Journal," would not be retrieved because the terms in the title do not appear in the same order as the terms in the search string. |
Do not use Boolean syntax or Boolean connectors such as "AND," "OR," or "AND NOT" in your search string. If included, these terms must be part of the title to avoid making the search invalid.
Do not use wildcard characters.
Partial terms (without wildcards) may be entered, but these partial terms must be entered in the same order as they appear in the title.
The search is not case-sensitive.
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