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Selecting a Search Language

The search language is the language of the database content you wish to search.

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Selecting a Search Language

1. Scroll down to the More Settings section of the Search page.

2. Go to the Search language menu.

3. The default setting is Auto select. This option allows you to enter search terms in English or Russian. The system automatically detects the language of the search term(s) and searches the appropriate index.

4. Select English to search only English-language database content. Select Russian to search only Russian-language database content. 

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About the Search Language

In selecting a search language, you select an index to search. For example, if you select English and search the Author field, the system will search the index that contains English-language author names. It will not search the index that contains Russian-language names.

If Auto-select is the setting, the system will 1) detect the language of the search term(s) and then 2) search the appropriate index. For example:

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To find all records in which either Лобастов, К.В. or Lobastov, K.V. is an author, perform two searches. Then go to Search History and combine the two search sets using the OR operator:

Keep in mind that the name Lobastov, K.V. may appear in the author list in records from databases aside from Russian Science Citation Index. Consequently, an author search for Lobastov, K.V. executed in Russian Science Citation Index may retrieve fewer records than the same search executed in All Databases.

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Scientific Terms and Abbreviations

Many scientific terms and abbreviations always appear in English. For example:

• DNA
• PCR
• RAPD
• RNA
• NaCl

These are included in indexes of Russian-language fields as well as indexes of English-language fields.

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Interface Language

You can view user interface text and help text in the following languages:

• English
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

See Selecting an Interface Language.

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Language Field

The Language field in a Full Record displays the language in which the source document was published.