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Searching the Publication Name Index

This index allows you to select one or more publication names to add to your search query. It contains the names of all publications indexed in the product.

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Browse Option

Click a letter (A-Z) to browse through a list of items alphabetically. This feature is useful if you do not know the correct spelling of an item.

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Move To Option

1. Enter a publication title or the first few characters of a title in the Move To text field. 

2. Click the Move To button to go to a list of items that begin with the characters that you entered. For example, if you enter cell as the search term, the product finds every title in the index that begins with Cell.

3. Click the Add button to select a title from the list. The selected title is added to the text box at the bottom of the page.

4. Click OK to transfer the selected title(s) to the search field on the Basic Search / Advanced Search page.

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Find Option

1. Enter a word or phrase in the Find text field. Wildcards (* $ ?) are permitted. You must enter at least two characters before the wildcard, for example, Ps*.

2. Click the Find button to go to a list of items that contain the term or terms that you entered. For example, if you enter semiconductor* as the search term, you will retrieve all titles that contain the text semiconductor, including Advances in Semiconductor Lasers and Physics of Organic Semiconductors.

3. Click the Add button to select a title from the list. The selected title is added to the text box at the bottom of the page.

4. Click OK to transfer the selected title(s) to the search field on the Basic Search or Advanced Search page.

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Journal Search

For a complete list of journals in the product, go to our Master Journal List.

After you access the Master Journal List page, select the Journal Alerts tab. Then select a searchable index to:

• Find a specific journal by title, title words, or ISSN.

• View a list of all journals.

• View a list of all journals covered in a specific subject category.

• View a list of all journal coverage changes.

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Timespan

The selected timespan appears in the right-hand corner of the page. The index contains all searchable items (and a record count) for this timespan.

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Booleans

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are treated as regular alphabetic characters. Do not use them in your search.