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With the Advanced Search tool, you can create a complex search using different criteria to locate the most relevant results. To begin, click on Advanced Search, which appears above the search bar at the top of each page.
The Advanced Search form will appear, offering several fields and filters to construct your search. Search Terms and FieldsTo begin, enter a search term into the first search bar. Your search terms can be an author's first or last name, a keyword, an article's DOI, a title, a phrase, and so on. |
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Selecting Search Terms
- The search is not case sensitive. Searches for pascal and Pascal will return the same result.
- Project Euclid uses stemming, meaning it determines a word's stem and uses it to makes searches more inclusive. If you search for figure, you will receive results including figure, figured, figures, figuring, etc.
- If you want to search a precise phrase, enclose the phrase or words in quotation marks. This will tell the search to treat the terms as a single item, as opposed to two separate search terms. For example:
- distribution patterns - this will prompt the search to return results for "distribution" and "patterns" separately.
- "distribution patterns" - this will return results that use the phrase "distribution patterns", meaning that the results are more likely to be relevant.
- Wildcards are an easy way to expand your search when you aren't sure of the precise terms you need. There are two wildcard characters: a question mark (?) and an asterisk (*). The ? represents one potential character that may be found in this word, in the position indicated - except at the beginning of a word. The * represents zero or more characters that may appear at the end of a word. As a general rule, wildcards cannot be used at the beginning of a word, nor can they be used inside a phrase contained in quotation marks. Below are some examples for how to use wildcards:
- b?nd - this will pull results that include bond, bend, band, bind, etc. And because of stemming, it will additionally include the plurals and tenses of these words in the search, such as binding, bent, etc.
- 19?? - This will find numbers from 1900 to 1999, as well as 19th.
- eco* - This will find ecology, ecological, ecosystem, etc.
Choosing a Field
Once you have entered your search terms, select a field to search through. The search terms tells the Advanced Search what to look for; the field tells it where to look for it.
There are 8 specific fields you can select from the drop-down menu to refine your search:
- All Fields - This option means that the search performed will search for your specified keywords across all of the fields below.
- Abstract - This will search through the text of article abstracts to identify relevant content.
- Author Name - This allows you to search for work by a specific author. The results will not include authors in citations.
- Affiliation - Search for work from authors affiliated with a specific institution or organization.
- DOI/ISSN/ISBN - Search by DOI to precisely locate a single article, or use an ISSN/ISBN to call up a specific journal or book.
- Figure and Table Captions - Search through the text contained in figure/table captions.
- Keywords - Search by important terms, phrases or words.
- Title - This searches through the article and chapter titles to find a match.
If you are unsure, select All Fields. While this will net more, potentially less-relevant results, it will perform the broadest search for your terms.
Narrowing by Publication and Years
You can further narrow your search by specifying which titles to search through. Type in the title you wish to select, or click View all titles for a full list. From this list you can select several titles to search through.
You can also narrow your search by year of publication. To search through a date range (i.e., 1986 - 1994), enter the start year in the left box under Range, and enter the end year in the right box. To search through a single year (i.e. 2004), enter the year in the Single year box.
Complex Searches
With Advanced Search, you have the ability to search for several sets of search terms at once. The form comes ready with three blank keyword bars, but select Add Field to add more - the maximum is 10. You can identify a different field for each keyword bar. Additionally, you can use the dropdown menu to the left of the keyword bar to create conditional searches with boolean operators:
- AND - This will find results which contain both terms, either together or separately (i.e. - if you search Rattlesnakes AND bite, the search results returned will contain articles which have either Rattlesnakes, bite , or Rattlesnakes and bite.)
- NOT - This will exclude specific terms from your search results. (i.e. - If you search " Nephrolepis exaltata" NOT " Nephrolepis biserrata", the search will find results containing Nephrolepis exaltata, and exclude results with Nephrolepis biserrata.)
- OR - This will find results with contain either term. (i.e. - If you search "Prescribed Fire" OR "Controlled Burn", the search will find results that contain either phrase.)
Executing your Search
Once you have set up your terms, click Search. You will then be directed to the search results page, where you can further refine your search to find the most relevant results.
Once you are done, you can save this search to revisit later, and sign up to receive periodic email updates on new content published in Project Euclid that matches these parameters.
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