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Basic search
Use the basic search to locate information on your topic. To do a more specific search, use the drop-down menu to limit your search. Choose Article Title to search words that appear in article titles. Choose Keywords to search only indexed and author-supplied words and phrases.
Basic search tips
- Searching climate change will yield results with climate and change in the documents.
- Searching "climate change" will yield results with the loose phrase climate change in the documents.
- Searching {climate change} will yield results with the exact phrase climate change in the documents.
- Use the asterisk * to find word variants: "climat* chang*" will yield results that include climate and climatic as well as change and changes and changed and changing as a loose phrase in the documents.
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Advanced search
Use the advanced search when you need to dig deeper into the literature. Choose the appropriate Field Code(s) in the right-hand column of the page. Once you select a Field Code, a description is provided in the center of the page. Add a Field Code to your search by clicking " + " that is to the right of any code.
Advanced search tips
- To search only for review articles, use " DOCTYPE(re) "
- To search for documents within a particular journal, use " EXACTSRCTITLE() " and type the journal name within the parentheses.
- To search by funding sponsor or grant number, use " FUND-ALL() " and include the full name or acronym of the funder, e.g., FUND-ALL("National Science Foundation") or FUND-ALL(NSF), or type in the grant number, e.g., FUND-ALL(NIH 5RO1AI091972-3).
- To search by chemical name or CAS registry number, use " CHEM() " and type the chemical name or number into the parentheses.
- To search an amino acid or nucleotide sequence number, use " SEQNUMBER() " and type the sequence number into the parentheses.
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Search document references and documents cited by the sources you find in an initial search.
