Search in International resources

• searching is not case sensitive and ignores punctation and diacritics

• "Poe's Raven"
  search phrase between quotation marks, i. e. Poe's Raven

• Poe AND Raven
  search terms containing Poe as well as Raven

• Poe OR Raven
  search terms containing at least one of the words Poe or Raven

• Poe NOT Raven
  search terms containing Poe and not containing Raven

• poe AND (raven OR (life AND work))
  you can use parentheses (even nested) to make advanced queries

• Rave*
  search terms with empty or random string of characters in place of * (truncation symbol can be used only at the end of the term; cannot be used togethser with ? or #)

• R?ven
  search terms begining with R and ending with ven with one character in place of ? (you cannot use that in the beginning of the term)

• R#ven
  search terms begining with R and ending with ven with one or zero character in place of # (you cannot use that in the beginning of the term)

• Poe N3 Raven
  proximity search; search terms with at most three words between Poe and Raven (regardless of the order)

• Poe W3 Raven
  proximity search; search terms with at most three words between Poe and Raven (in this order)

• If the search box is empty, by clicking on Find button, the list of all entries within the Domestic resources will be shown.

Advanced search in International resources

Search boxes

User chooses the category (such as author or title) which will be searched from the drop-down list (with pre-set search In All Fields (without full text)).

It is possible to Add search box and enter additional search terms there.

Logical operators from a short drop-down menu can be applied on any search box in the group (except the first one). There are following options:

• AND
• OR
• NOT

Search Modes and Expanders

When searching by author, title, topic, etc., only metadata records of documents are searched, not full texts.

If you want the full texts to be taken into account when searching, check the box Also search within the full text of the articles.

Search mode

• Boolean/phrase allows you to evaluate a filled search box as an expression in quotation marks (i.e. to find an exact match) or as a logical expression (if contains AND, OR či NOT).
• Find all search terms applies the operator AND to all words in the filled search box.
• Find any of the search terms applies the operator OR to all words in the filled search box.
• SmartText Searching allows you to search for contiguous blocks of text (such as paragraphs from articles). Applies only to the term in the first search box.

Limit to

• Full Text - searches only records with full text available online
• Peer Reviewed - searches only records from reviewed sources
• Language - selection of the language of the searched documents

Year of Publication

Allows you to specify the time interval in which the searched documents were published.