Article (Summon) Search Options

Special Search Characters

double quote
"scientific american"
phrase search

question mark
wom?n
replaces any single character

asterisk
politic*
replaces any number of characters -- cannot be used at start of word

Boolean Searching

Boolean operators must be typed in UPPERCASE.

AND
teens AND smoking
Finds items that contain both terms. Useful when searching for two concepts together.

OR
teen OR adolescent
Finds items that contain either term. Useful when searching synonyms.

NOT
mercury NOT planet
Finds items that contain the first term, but not the second term. Useful when excluding one sense of a term, or one aspect of a subject.

parentheses
(cats OR dogs) AND food
Groups terms together.

Fielded searching

Searches can be targetted to any of these fields:

Title, SubjectTerms, Author, Publisher, PublicationTitle, Volume, Issue, Language, Notes, ISBN, ISSN, DOI, DEWEY

field:(query)
Author:(Ondaatje)
Finds items that contain search terms in specified field.


Search examples

You can combine search strategies to build a search for your topic:

(child* OR adolescen* or teen*) AND "body image" AND Language:(English)

You can view the contents of a journal issue:

PublicationTitle:(Nature) AND Volume:(477) AND Issue:(7366)