Publication search

General Search

1. Logic for Search:
   

   All terms entered are used as Search Keywords. A preceding '-' would exclude the word ("NOT" logic), otherwise, all words are required to be in the answer ("AND" logic).

   A '-' between two words means that both the words must be found in the same sequence . Alternatively, words may be enclosed by "".
   In numerical search fields, for example Year, Volume, Page, a '-' is evaluated as an interval:
     -2005 an interval up to 2005
     2005-2010 an interval between 2005 and 2010
     2005- an interval from 2005

   AND and OR are no logical search statements, but normal text.
   Examples:
     'Meier OR Meyer' searches for all three words 'Meier', 'or' and 'Meyer'
     'Meier -Meyer' searches for all records, having the keyword 'Meier' , and not having 'Meyer'.

2. Country-specific special characters:
   

   The result text is displayed in a normal way, as long as the ANSI character set can display it. In addition,all Greek letters are also supported and common formatting is done (Italics, Bold, Subscript and Superscript).

   While searching, the texts are simplified. Formatting (bold, italic, Greek, etc.) are not taken into account and special characters are interpreted:
     ä = ae
     ß = ss
     γ = g
   

3. Fuzzy search terms, spelling errors, etc:
   

   Currently supports only the exact spelling:
     'Stephan' does not find 'Stefan'
     'Jod' does not find 'Iod'
     'Phtalat' does not find 'Phthalat'
   The German ß is not a search for the equivalent of greek β (beta) !!

Information about the search fields

1. All fields:

   Here you can specify multiple search words, which are each separately searched for in all fields.
   '128 American Journal Meyer' finds 'Meyer' as an Author, 'Journal' and 'American' in the Journal name and 128 as the volume number. 'Meyer Journal -American' finds 'Meyer' as an Author, 'Journal' as part of the journal name and excludes 'American' from the search list. 'Meyer "American Chemical"' or 'Meyer American-Chemical' means that the words 'American' and 'Chemical' need to be found in same sequence.

2. Author (= Author of Articles, Inventor of Patents):

   Authors can be found through the normal notation (firstname lastname) or inverted (lastname, firstname):
     'Dennstedt, Max' finds the publications of Max Dennstedt, since the inverse notation is recognized (due to the comma separator between the lastname and firstname.)
     'Max Dennstedt' finds the same hits as above, no inversion is made.
     'Dennstedt Max' finds no hits because it is not recognized as an inverted name (comma missing)

   Titles of nobility are part of the family names and not the first names. So here a different logic is applied, as in many bibliographic systems.
   'Walter von Bebenburg' is found by the search line:
     'Walter von Bebenburg'
     'von Bebenburg, Walter'
   Unsuccessful are:
     'Bebenburg, Walter von'   false Inversion(as 'von' is in the wrong position
     'v. Bebenburg, Walter'   abbreviations are not resolved.

   Semicolon ';' separates two authors that are included in the search in any order
   .   'Meyer; Meier' finds the Authors 'Meyer' and 'Meier'
     'Meyer Meier' would only find the doublename 'Meyer-Meier'.

3. Editor (= editor of books, supervisor for doctoral thesis, applicants of patents):

   Has the same formatting rules as the Author search.

4. Author / Editor:

   Search for a person as an Author or Editor.
   Has the same formatting rules as the Author search.

5. Publication Title:

   This is the title of a Publication. The results of these titles are always in the first row.

6. Journal names:

   In the database, the journal names are stored without abbreviation, example:
     'Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals'.
   Only an uninterrupted substring of the text leads to the results:
     'Crystals and Liquid' is found;
     'Cryst. Liq. Cryst.' results in no hits

   The search term 'Liquid Crystals' is present both in 'Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals' and in 'Liquid Crystals'. If you only want to find the exact title of the Journal, you can use the search term in double quotes, ie.:
     '"Liquid Crystals"'.

   Some very commonly used abbreviations can be used as a search term:
     'J. Am. Chem. Soc." finds also 'Journal of the American Chemical Society'

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