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Bibliographic Searching
Title
? s allogeneic(w)marrow( )transplant?/ti
Author Name
? s au=miyamura k?
Author Address
? s cs=(department(1w)internal(w)medicine)
Journal/Source Title
? s jn=bone marrow transplantation or
? s so=(bone(w)marrow(w)transplantation)
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Subject Searching
The Descriptor field
Use the Descriptor field (/de) to simultaneously search all the indexing fields (excluding Biosystematic Codes
and Concept Codes).
Example
? s turkey/de
Use the individual descriptor fields to search for ambiguous terms. For example, there are a variety of contexts
for the word turkey which you should consider when developing your search strategy.
Example
Organisms field:
? s turkey/oi
(turkey the bird)
or
Geographic Name field:
? s turkey/gn
(Turkey the country)
Individual Descriptor fields:
Major Concepts
? s human(w)medicine/mc
Organism Names & Modifiers
? s adenovirus/oi
Biosystematic Classification (Super Taxa)
? s bc=viruses
or Biosystematic Code
? s bc=02500 {viruses - General (1993-)}
Chemical Name
? s ribavirin/na
? s ribavirin/sy
CAS Registry Numbers
®
? s rn=36791-04-5
Organism Parts, Structures, and Systems
? s spleen/ps
Diseases
? s (hemorrhagic(w)cystitis)/ds
Alternate Indexing
? s lung neoplasm?/mh
Sequence Data
? s genbank/sq
Methods & Equipment
? s (therapeutic(w)method)/mq
Geographic Name
? s (US or USA or united(w)states)/gn
Miscellaneous Terms
? s (clinical(w)symptom?)/mi
Concept Codes or
? s cc=12512 or ? s cc=125
Concept Name
? s cn=pathology?
Searching for Publication Type
BIOSIS Previews is unique in integrating a variety of publication types. To view the full list of publication types,
use "e dt=a" as your search statement.
Searching for meetings
? s dt=meeting or ? s s1/conf
Searching for books
? s dt=book
Searching for patents
? s dt=patent or ? s patent/df
