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Bibliographic Searching
Title
monkey* in ti
Author
iwanaga-s* in au
Author Address
brazil in ad
Source Journal
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primatology in so
Notes
translated in nt
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Use the Journal Name (JN) field to retrieve single-word journal titles; for example, Cell in jn retrieves only those records from the journal Cell and not those
from Journal of Cell Biology.
SEARCHING
Searching Fundamentals
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Subject Searching
Broad Terms
conservation in bt
Descriptors
brazil in de
Super Taxa
mammalia in st
Taxa Notes
mammals in tn
Use the Topics (TP) field to search in the Broad Terms (BT), Descriptors (DE), Systematics (SY), Super Taxa (ST) and
Taxa Notes (TN) fields simultaneously. Searches from the Thesaurus are automatically restricted to the these fields.
Topics
conservation in tp
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Implied proximity retrieves records with search
terms in any order.
s
WITH retrieves records containing the search
terms in the same field.
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NEAR retrieves records containing the search
terms in the same sentence.
s
Depending on the field being searched, use either
"IN" and then the field tag or an equal sign (=).
s
Use parentheses with search operators AND,
OR, NOT to preserve the correct search logic.
s
Truncate terms using the asterisk (*) for a string
of zero or more characters to find plurals and
variant spellings.
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Use the wildcard question mark (?) for one
character or more.
Using the Index
The Index allows you to browse an alphabetical index of all terms and phrases in the free-text fields of the
database. Use it to find variant word endings and alternate spellings for search terms, e.g., alternate forms of
author names. If you select more than one term to search from the Index, the selected terms are combined using
the OR operator.
Example
growth allometr* = growth allometry
allometric growth
Example
cell* = cell
cells
cellular
cellulose
Example
behavio?r = behaviour
behavior
Example
To find alternate forms of the name of author Stephen Ferrari in the database, look
up Ferrari-S in the Index:
FERRARI-S
FERRARI-SF
FERRARI-STEPHEN
FERRARI-STEPHEN-F
