Stopwords are common, frequently used words such as articles (a, an, the), prepositions (of, in, for, through), and pronouns (it, their, his) that cannot be searched as individual words in the Topic and Title fields. If you include a stopword in a phrase, the stopword is interpreted as a word placeholder.

A ABOUT ABOVE ACCORDING ACROSS ACTUAL ADDED AFTER AGAINST AHEAD ALL ALMOST ALONE ALONG ALSO AMONG AMONGST AN AND AND-OR AND/OR ANON ANOTHER ANY ARE ARISING AROUND AS AT AWARD AWAY BE BECAUSE BECOME BECOMES BEEN BEFORE BEHIND BEING BELOW BEST BETTER BETWEEN BEYOND BIRTHDAY BOTH BUT BY CAN CERTAIN COME COMES COMING COMPLETELY CONCERNING CONSIDER CONSIDERED CONSIDERING CONSISTING DE DEPARTMENT DER DESPITE DISCUSSION DO DOES DOESNT DOING DOWN DR DU DUE DURING EACH EITHER ESPECIALLY ET FEW FOR FORWARD FROM FURTHER GET GIVE GIVEN GIVING HAS HAVE HAVING HIS HONOR HOW IN INSIDE INSTEAD INTO IS IT ITEMS ITS JUST LET LETS LITTLE LOOK LOOKS

MADE MAKE MAKES MAKING MANY MEET MEETS MORE MOST MUCH MUST MY NEAR NEARLY NEXT NOT NOW OF OFF ON ONLY ONTO OR OTHER OUR OUT OUTSIDE OVER OVERALL PER POSSIBLY PT PUT REALLY REGARDING REPRINTED SAME SEEN SEVERAL SHOULD SHOWN SINCE SO-CALLED SOME SPP STUDIES STUDY SUCH TAKE TAKEN TAKES TAKING THAN THAT THE THEIR THEM THEN THERE THEREFROM THESE THEY THIS THOSE THROUGH THROUGHOUT TO TOGETHER TOWARD TOWARDS UNDER UNDERGOING UP UPON UPWARD VARIOUS VERSUS VERY VIA VOL VOLS VS WAS WAY WAYS WE WERE WHAT WHATS WHEN WHERE WHICH WHILE WHITHER WHO WHOM WHOS WHOSE WHY WITH WITHIN WITHOUT YET YOU YOUR

Examples

pH of soil finds every record that contains pH and soil anywhere in a Topic field. For example:

pH of soil;
pH and soil;
pH alluvial soil;
soil pH;
and so on.

The system ignores the word "of" because it is a stopword.

vitamin A finds every record that contains the word vitamin in a Topic field. The letter "A" is ignored.

Publication Name Searches

In a search by Publication Name, stopwords are recognized as words, and therefore, may be used in a search query.