Help: Article Search

You can access the Article Search page by following the Article Search link in the toolbar. You can search Periodicals Index Online using a combination of the following criteria:

• Keyword(s)
• Article Title Keyword(s)
• Author
• Journal Title
• Language
• Journal Subject
• Year of Publication
• ISSN

Alternative Journal Titles

Searches within the field 'Journal Title' will return results where the 'alternative journal title' also matches the criteria. Alternative journal titles exist where a journal has changed its name over the course of its lifetime.

Search Options

You can either search across all the data available in Periodicals Index Online or you can restrict your search to just book reviews, or just articles. Depending on your subscription, you can also choose whether to include articles from British Periodicals journals in your search or search in citations with links to full text in JSTOR. Use the check boxes in the Search Options box to alter the scope of your search.

Sorting results

Search results can be sorted in one of four ways:

• By relevance
• Alphabetically by journal title
• Oldest record first
• Most recent record first

The sort order can be selected on the search page before the search is run by selecting the relevant option from the Sort results drop-down list, or afterwards from the results page. By default your results will be returned in relevance order.

Displaying results

You can choose whether to display 20, 50 or 100 entries on the Article Search Results page using the Display drop-down list; click the arrow to the right of the box and choose the relevant option from the list that appears. You can change this on the results page too. By default 50 results will display per page.

Entering Search Terms

There are two ways in which you can enter search terms in Article Search. You can:

• Click on the select from a list link next to a search field to open a list of terms. Check one or more terms and click the Select Terms button to paste them back to the search page.
• Enter your own keywords or phrases into the relevant search fields.

In the Article Search page, you can combine search terms using Boolean and proximity searching and search for variations on search terms using truncation. You can also use parentheses to group words within complex searches.

Note: Between search boxes, all terms are treated by default as if they were combined using the Boolean operator AND.

When you have finished making your selections, click the Search button. The Article Search Results page will appear displaying the results of your search.

If you want to clear all search boxes and begin a completely new search, click on the Clear Search link at the bottom of the page.