jvine
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7 years ago Here it is as it's been entered in the library website, to show markup: https://library.stanford.edu/guides/article-search-tips
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<dt><b>For a known citation, type author name and title in the main search box.</b></dt>
<dd><i>Example:</i> block bioenergetics of captive yellowfin tuna</dd>
<dt><b>Start with keywords in the "All fields" search; add more keywords to refine.</b></dt>
<dd>In articles+, adding more keywords to your search is often more effective than using facets.</dd>
<dt><b>Enter your search in lower case or mixed case, never in ALL CAPS.</b></dt>
<dd>Some upper-case words in your search may be interpreted as boolean or field codes and will cause the search to fail.</dd>
<dt><b>Search author names in last name, first name order to get more relevant results at the top.</b></dt>
<dd><i>Example:</i> cornell, eric rather than eric cornell</dd>
<dt><b>You can combine specific field searches using field codes:
AU = Author; TI = Title; SU = Subject terms; SO = Journal/Source</b></dt>
<dd><i>Example:</i> AU block, barbara SO science </dd>
<dt><b>Stopwords are disregarded, even in quotes.</b></dt>
<dd>Searching for a title that contains only stopwords ("to be or not to be") is not possible. Try another approach: by author, subject, or by going directly to a <a href="/databases">topic-specific database</a>.</dd>
<dt><b>Not every source provides values for every facet; Geography in particular.</b></dt>
<dd>Caution: facets can exclude relevant items from your results simply because they are from a source that doesn't provide that metadata. </dd>
<dt><b>Search results are de-duplicated on the fly, but facet counts are not.</b></dt>
<dd>A facet may indicate there are more articles on a topic than the final search result provides after de-duplication.</dd>
<dt><b>AND, OR, and NOT (upper-case) are Boolean operators and can be combined with parentheses.</b></dt>
<dd><i>Example:</i> tuna (yellowfin OR bluefin) </dd>
<dt><b>Search for non-English titles in quotation marks</b></dt>
<dd>This helps ensure that non-English words like "su" and "de" are not interpreted as search codes.</dd>
<dt><b>Use wildcards to search for spelling or word variations</b></dt>
<dd><ul><li># for 0 or 1 letter: colo#r (finds color, colour)</li>
<li>? for 1 letter: ne?t (finds next, nest, neat... but not net)</li>
<li>* for multiple letters: comput* (finds computer, computing, computation)</li></ul></dd>
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See #1599.
We also need a list of search tips so that we can randomly rotate them