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  Search Operators
  Let you connect multiple words together into a single search statement.
 
  Field-Restricted Searches
  Help you search for articles using specific information.
 
  Field Names List
  For using with Field-Restricted Searches and sample use.
 

Search Operators
 

Following is a list of Search Operators and brief descriptions of how they will help you build a search.

Operator Example Use Find articles containing ...
AND internet AND programming internet and programming in the same article.
OR internet OR programming internet or programming, or both, anywhere in the entire article.
NOT internet AND NOT programming internet but not programming.
NEAR internet NEAR/3 programming internet occurs within 3 words near programming.
ADJ internet ADJ programming programming appears immediately after internet.
W/n internet W/3 programming programming occurs within 3 words after internet.
? int??net matches internet, intranet...
* inter* matches inter, internet, international...
+ program+ matches program, programmed, programming, programmer...
# program# matches program, but not programmed, programming, programmer...
Note:

ADJ is a default Query Operator.

For example: internet programming would be the same as internet ADJ programming
Query-Time Stemming is turned off. Use + to force a search for all variants of a query term.
For example: program would be the same as program#.

Field-Restricted Searches

:field
  Field restriction operator for a single word in the query; specifiesthat the word before the colon is to be searched only against field.

Example: smitD:author specifies that the author field is to be searched for the query word smith.
/F:
  field1, field2...Field restriction operator for the entire query; specifies that the entire query is to be searched against fields.

Example: kirk douglas/F:text, author, title specifies that kirk and/or douglas need to be in either the text, author, or the title field for the record to be retrieved.
field=num
  Numeric match operator; specifies that field must exactly match num, where num is a non-negative number.

Example: year=1982 requires the contents of the year field to contain 1982.
Field Names List
 

Fields help you search for articles using specific information, such as an author or a company name. The list below highlights the most frequency used fields.

These are the fields and what they can help you find.
Example Use

TITLE Title (Adenine Tautomer Electronic Structural):TITLE
AUTHOR Author Elaine Windrich:AUTHOR
SUBJECT Subject (Physics):SUBJECT
KEYWORDS Keyword(s) (Dual Space Analysis):KEYWORDS 
SOURCE Source (Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (JTCC)):JOURNAL
ISSUE Issue (Year: 2005 Vol: 4 No:1 Page: 95 - 116):ISSUE
History History (Received: June 2004, Accepted: 8 July 2004):History
DOI DOI (doi:10.1142/S021963360500143X):DOI
ABSTRACT Abstract (Electronic structural signatures of the adenine-7H):ABSTRACT
REFERENCE References (IEEE Computer Society):REFERENCE



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