Frequently Asked Questions
How do I?
Carrying out a search
- Choose an author from the dropdown list.
- You can either click SEARCH to browse papers by this author or type a search term in the box to narrow down your search.
- Make sure you click SEARCH as pressing the Enter key does not run the search
- The Search Results page will appear with any results found.
- The number of hits will be displayed at the top of the page. Only the first 500 results will appear so you may need to refine your search by combining words (see below)
Combining words using AND, OR, NOT
- If you want to narrow down the search, type two or more key words into the relevant search box, joined with * which means AND.
- As well as using * for AND, you can also use + for OR and ^ for NOT.
- It is not possible to specify that words must appear next to each other (adjacency search)
Finding authors
Typing the author(s) directly into the search box
- You can type in the surname and initial in the exact way it appears in the database e.g. to find K. Weber you need to type weber, k. (surname comma space initial full stop)
- To search for more than one author, type in the names joined with * which means AND e.g. bryan, g.w.*gibbs, p.e. (surname comma space initial full stop initial full stop)
Searching for a range of years
To search for a range of years, you need to type in e.g. 1993+1994+1995 which means 1993 OR 1994 OR 1995.
Truncating words
- The database will automatically search for exact matches for your keywords.
- To truncate words (for a broader search), remove the tick from the box marked Exact Match of Words e.g. if the box is ticked, typing in fish will return only records containing fish.
- If the box is unticked, typing in fish will return records containing fisheries, fishing and fish.
- If you prefer you can leave the tick in the box and use $ to truncate words e.g. fish$. If you use $ without the tick then no results will be found.
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