How to search - detailed instruction
BazTech can be searched in two main ways:
Searching by specific terms
Some fields should be fulfilled by typing words, another ones by choosing the different criteria e.g. year of publication, type of publication, language. In form you can specify term for one or more record fields. Specifying more than one term results setting AND as default logical operator. If one enter several terms into fields such as "author name", "article title", "keywords" (or part of term without wildcard character) separating them by space, OR will be default logical operator. The field "Journal Title" one can fulfil exactly or approximately.
- Enter your search terms in one or more field and click the Search button.
- Boolean operators
- multiple field searches are automatically combined with the AND operator; if you want to find documents with words from article title (AND), type in separate box in fields "Word(s) in title"
- if you want to find documents with any of words form article title(OR), type a commas between them (in one field); comma means logical OR e.g. metal, zinc in field " Word(s) in title" will find articles with words metal or metals or zinc
- Phrase searching
- database does not allow phrase searching in field "Word(s) in title". You can type only single term in one box. If you search phrase type one word in the first box and another words in the next box. They are automatically combined with the AND operator.
- in fields "Keywords" and "Journal Title" you can type whole phrase using appropriate wild cards
- Wild cards
- there are no special wild card symbols for one or more characters at the end of the word - that is enough to enter initial characters of the word (the root)
- e.g. environ in field "Word(s) in title" will find: environment, environmental, environmental, in article titles
- e.g. Control in field "Journal Title" will find table of contents of "Control and Cyberneticsi"
- e.g. acceler in field "Keywords in English" will find articles with keywords (one or more) e.g. acceleration, acceleration of liners, accelerometers, accelerated solvent extraction
- % means any sequence of characters at the beginning or end of words; useful in fields "keywords", e.g. %metal% will find metal clusters, metal ions, heavy metal, metal films, metallothermy in field "Journal Title".
- Polish characters
- in fields "Author", "Word(s) in title" can be used Polish or Latin characters
- in other fields should be used Polish characters or _
- Search Fields
To search one or more fields on the search form and click the Search button:
- Author: name of an author of the publication. Enter the surname only, e.g. Kowalski, M. See Boolean operators, wild cards, Polish characters
- Word(s) in title: words that appear in article title in Polish or/and English and words that appear in conference titles. Please note that it does not allow phrase searching in this field. You can type only single term in one box. If you search phrase type one word in the first box and another words in the next box. They are automatically combined with the AND operator. See phrase searching, Boolean operators, wild cards, Polish characters
- Journal Title: journal title. Enter the whole title or some part, e g. Archives of civil in case initial part or %thermodyn in case any part. See phrase searching, wild cards, Polish characters
- Year of publication: leave empty or select year from pulldown list
- Document type: leave empty or select type from pulldown list of following types: all, journal article, conference proceedings
- Keywords in Polish: authors keywords or keywords added by librarian. Enter whole term or initial part (without wild card characters), e.g. metal. You can also enter any part of term using %, e.g. %metal. See phrase searching, Boolean operators, wild cards, Polish characters
- Keywords in English: authors keywords. Enter whole term or initial part (without wild card characters), e.g. plastic flow. You can also enter any part of term using %, e.g. %metal. See phrase searching, Boolean operators, wild cards, Polish characters
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Indexes
Browsing the indexes by clicking one of the "index" icons located at the top of page Search:
- "Journals indexed" - alphabetical list of indexed journals. Selecting one of the title allows link to journal description and table of contents one of indexed years.
- "Keywords in Polish" - all authors keywords or keywords added by librarians in alphabetical order. Select a first letter of a keyword, select appropriate term, and click on it. Selecting one of the keyword allows link to article title that contains that term.
- "Keywords in Polish" - all authors keywords in alphabetical order. Select a first letter of a keyword, select appropriate term, and click on it. Selecting one of the keyword allows link to article title that contains that term.
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