How to search for periodicals?: Main

With Basic search on the Periodicals A-Z, you can quickly run a search for your keywords. Quick filters are also available, enabling you to easily create a more targeted search before reviewing your results.

To search Periodicals A-Z:

1. Begin entering your keywords in the search box.
   As you type, keywords and searches matching your terms appear below the search box. When the desired titles appear in the list, simply click the publication name to run the search.
   
    

2. You may see options to limit your search by publication type by using the resource limiters configured by JWL below the search box.
   

3. Click search terms from the list to view results or use the drop-down menus above the search box to adjust the search behavior.

   Use this drop down to focus the publications search by one of: title Name, Author, ISSN/ISSBN, Publisher, Subject, or All fields. Note: All fields searches against the Title, Author, ISSN/ISBN and Subject fields but not Publisher.

    
   
   Use this drop down to specify the desired search behavior.
   
   
   Notes:

   • Please note that using Author will search across author, editor and illustrator.

   • Proximity searching is not available when Author is selected.

4. After entering your search terms and selecting your search options and limiters, click the magnifying glass image on the left of the search box or press the Enter key on your keyboard.

5. Your results will display below the search box. Note that only selected and not hidden titles are shown in the results.

6. You may see options to filter your results by Peer Reviewed Journals, Subjects, Resources, and Databases in the column on the left. (Note that these result list filters are also referred to as Facets.)
   
   
    

7. If a filter (facet) includes a search box, you are able to search for a specific facet value (normally only the top few facet values display).
   
   
   
    

   Drop-Down Menu Definitions

   The second of the two search option drop-down menus includes the following options to help adjust the precision of the keyword search.

   Important note on searching publications with regard to subject display in the result list view

   When searching for publications by subject in the enhanced Periodicals A-Z UI, the system searches against all of the available subject schemes (incl. General, Medical, and LoC) and returns publications with a match on subject term across any of those subject schemes. The user will have the ability to view all subject schemes/data associated with each publication in the result list.

   The primary subject scheme configured for the institution's Publication Finder experience controls:

8. • Any

     • If "Any" is selected then publications with any of the search words will be retrieved – it is the equivalent of searching with the Boolean OR between each of your terms.

       Note: This search option also performs single-term wildcard searching, e.g. a search for Oil* would return results for Oil, Oils, Oiled, Oiling, etc.

   • Contains

     • If "Contains" is selected, all your search words must appear, but word order doesn't matter – it is the equivalent of searching with the Boolean AND between each of your terms.

       Note: This search option also performs single-term wildcard searching, e.g. a search for Oil* would return results for Oil, Oils, Oiled, Oiling, etc.

   • Proximity

     • Finds your terms if they are within 10 words of one another and in the order that you enter them. For example "Nature Optimization" with a proximity search on title name would search for Optimization within 10 words after the term Nature. The example of this search may pull following titles (assuming these titles are in customer holdings and not hidden)
       • Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Optimization
       • Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms
       • Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2010)
       Similarly searching for "Pro GmbH" on publisher with proximity search, will show titles with publisher 'Pro Management Verlag GmbH' in it. Similarly searching for "Social Humanities" on subject with Proximity search, will show titles with subject as "Social Sciences & Humanities" in it.

   • Exact Phrase

     • If you select "Exact Phrase", This will result in returning a list of titles where your search words appear as an exact phrase.
       
       For example, if you search “Natural Neuroscience” using Exact Phrase, if there is a title matching Natural Neuroscience, that title will be placed at top of the list and remaining titles matching this phrase will follow (examples: Natural Neuroscience, Natural Neuroscience in climate change, Journal of Natural Neuroscience, Evolutionary Cognitive Natural Neuroscience (Cognitive neuroscience)

   • Exact Match

     • If you select "Exact Match", this will result in a list of title or titles (if there is/are more than one title with same name) using an exact match search – e.g. your search words exactly matched the complete title.
       
       For example, a search of Natural Neuroscience will match the complete term in whatever search field is being searched. This will result in returning only titles matching exactly the whole title Natural Neuroscience. If there is no matching title with the whole name, then no results are returned.

   • Begins With

     • If you select “Begins With”, results in a list of titles in which the search field begins with your search words – this is the equivalent using truncation.
       
       For example, a search for Oil would return results for Oil* (Oils, Oiled, Oiling, etc.); or, a search for “Natural Neuroscience” would return results for Natural Neuroscience and Natural Neuroscience in climate change.

   • The order in which subject scheme/data are displayed for each result list item – the configured subject scheme will display first/above the “more” line, followed by any other subject scheme/data associated with the publication when user expands to view “more” details.