Tips for Using the E-Journals Search Interface
You can use the Libraries website to search for e-journals with straightforward titles or subjects.
Use CLIO for a more powerful and flexible search system.
Title (Start of Title) :: Title Keywords :: Subject Keywords :: Common Words :: Diacritics :: Punctuation :: Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) :: Phrases :: Wildcards :: Page Length Limit Options
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Title (Start of Title) Search |
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The Title (start of title) search seeks matches for initial words appearing in titles as left-anchored phrases. The order in which words are input affects retrieval. The last word is wildcarded on the right. For example:
journal of the me
retrieves:
Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids (Online)
Journal of the Medical Library Association (Online)
[etc.]
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Title Keywords Search |
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The Title Keywords search seeks matches for words appearing in titles. The order in which words are input does not affect retrieval. |
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Subject Keywords Search |
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The Subject Keywords search seeks matches for words appearing anywhere in the title and the set of subject headings that were assigned to the e-journal during cataloging.
For example, a subject search for "folk literature" retrieves the e-journal "Marvels and Tales" because the subject heading "Folk literature--History and criticism--Periodicals" was assigned to the e-journal cataloging record by the cataloger. Both Library of Congress and Medical Subject Headings are searchable in this way. |
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Common Words for Keyword Searches |
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Common words such as articles, prepositions, and pronouns are stoplisted, i.e., not indexed for searching. If you input stoplisted words, they will be ignored; only non-stoplisted words will be searched.
Stoplisted words: a, an, and, are, as, at, be, but, by, for, if, in, into, is, it, no, not, of, on, or, s, such, t, that, the, their, then, there, these, they, this, to, was, will, with
Ampersands are ignored.
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Diacritics |
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Diacritics are indexed for searching. If you input diacritics, they will not be ignored. |
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Punctuation for Keyword Searches |
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In general, punctuation is ignored. An apostrophe followed by an "s" is ignored. For example, whether you input women or women's, your search will retrieve the same results. |
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Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) for Keyword Searches |
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AND. When more than one word is input, the search is processed as a Boolean "AND" search: only those e-journals described by all the words present are retrieved. |
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OR. Use the Boolean "OR" operator to find e-journals described by any of the words. To do this, input "OR" in uppercase letters between the words to be searched. For example:
business OR economics
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NOT. Use the Boolean "NOT" operator to find e-journals not described by a particular word. To do this, input "NOT" in uppercase letters before the word to be excluded. Alternatively, input a minus sign "-" directly before the word to be excluded. For example:
science NOT medical
or:
science -medical
or, to exclude multiple words:
science NOT medical NOT medicine
or:
science -medical -medicine
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Phrases for Keyword Searches |
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Use quotation marks (") to find e-journals described by exact phrases. For example,
"global warming"
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Wildcards for Keyword Searches |
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Use a wildcard (i.e., a truncation symbol) to find e-journals described by words with variant endings. Wildcards cannot be used at the beginning of a word.
To use a wildcard, input a question mark (?) for a single character or an asterisk (*) for more than one character. For example:
wom?n
retrieves:
woman, women
child*
retrieves:
child, children, childhood [etc.]
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Page Length Limit Options |
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You can determine the number of titles you wish to see displayed on each search results page: 10, 25, 50, 100 or "all results." The default number of titles displayed per search results page is 50. |
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