When searching for a title or a subject it is recommended to use only a few significant words. It is usually not necessary to search for the entire title or the complete subject heading (but it is, of course, possible). It is also recommended to avoid very common and insignificant words like articles, prepositions, etc.

The system is not case sensitive, i.e. it makes no distinction between upper case and lower case letters.

At the moment truncation is not permitted but you can use the operator OR to search for variants of a word, e.g. experiment or experiments or experimental.

All searches result in a hit list beginning with the most recently relevant titles. Articles and reviews may be found at the end of the hit list. These search tips are valid for the regular SARDC Database, as well as for the specialized databases and subject bibliographies. Additional search tips may be found in the database info characters.

The implicit operator between search entries is AND and the same is usually the case within individual search entries. (In the case of publication and library codes the implicit operator is OR). Except for the title entry, it is however possible to change the operator within a search entry (but not between them).

Permitted operators are the following:

• AND All search terms must occur
• OR One or more of the search terms must occur
• NOT One or more of the search terms must not occur
• NEAR The search terms must occur adjacent to each other but in any order