Quick Search Tips

The Quick Search feature provides an easy way to do searches for ejournals with that have straightforward titles or subjects.  For advanced ejournal searching and for all print materials, please remember to use CLIO – a more powerful and flexible search system.

	Title (Start of Title) Search
	The Title (Start of Title) Search is a left-anchored phrase search that allows users to key in the initial words of a title and retrieve only titles exactly matching the search argument. The last word is wildcarded.  For example:      title = journal of the me retrieves      Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids (Online)      Journal of the Medical Library Association (Online) etc.
	Title Keyword Search
	The Title Word Search attempts to match the user's search input against individual words appearing in ejournal titles.  The order of input does not affect retrieval.
	Subject Keyword Search
	The Subject Word Search attempts to match the user's input against the set of subject headings that were assigned to the ejournal during cataloging.  For example, a subject search for "folk literature" will retrieve the ejournal "Marvels and Tales" because the subject heading "Folk literature--History and criticism--Periodicals" was applied to the title by the cataloger. Both Library of Congress & Medical Subject Headings are searchable in this way.
	Search Details
	Title Keyword Wildcarding (Truncation).   Using Title Keyword Searching, terms are wildcarded on the right (only).  For example, a title search for the word "gene" retrieves titles with the word "gene" as well as those containing the word "genes," "genetics" and "genealogy." This also means that standard journal citation formats may be used for searching, e.g., J Polym Sci J Vac Sci Acc Chem Res Acta Cryst
	Common Words.   Common words, such as articles and pronouns, are not indexed.  (See the entire stoplist.) If you include these words in the search box, they will be ignored and only the non-stoplisted words will be searched.
	Diacritics & Special Characters.   Diacritics and special characters such as apostrophes & ampersands are ignored.
	Boolean (Multiple Word) Searches.   When more than one word is entered into the search box, it is handled as a Boolean 'and' search: only those citations with all search terms present are retrieved. The Boolean "not" command is also available if needed to limit a result set to titles or subjects that omit specific words. To do this, add a minus sign or hyphen "-" directly before the word to be excluded, e.g.,        medical -journal or, to exclude multiple words:        medical -journal -bulletin
	Page Display Options
	Page Length Limit Option.  You may set the number of hits per page to be displayed to 10, 25, 50, 100 or "all listings," e.g., if you wish to scroll through all retrieved titles.  The initial default page length is currently set to 50.