Searching in Physical Review Letters online
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Contents of this Help topic:
Related Topic: Advanced Searching Techniques: Includes information about using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT), proximity, and character masking operators; also includes additional information about indexes
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Start Search button: After you prepare your search using the Search For box, Search Type buttons, and Search Limits boxes, click on this button to begin the search.
Search For box: Click on this box to type your search
word(s). Sample search words:
electromagnetic
transparency
antiresonance
condensed matter
Search Type buttons: If Any is selected, EJO searches the text and other parts of each document that contain subject content. If Author is selected, EJO searches the author information in each document. If Title is selected, EJO searches the title of each document. If you select no button and type no index label in the Search For box, EJO searches as if you selected the Any button.
Document Type Search Limits box: When the box contains [No Type Limit], your searches find all types of Physical Review Letters online documents. Click on the arrow in the box to view a drop-down list of the document types. To limit search results to a particular type of document, select that type so that it displays in the box.
Subject Heading Search Limits box: When the box contains [No Sbj. Limit], your searches find Physical Review Letters online documents regardless of their subject headings. Click on the arrow in the box to view a drop-down list of the subject headings. To limit search results to a particular subject heading, select that heading so that it displays in the box.
Publication Dates Search Limits box: When this box is blank, your searches find documents regardless of their publication dates. To limit results to a particular range of publication dates, type the start date, a hyphen, and the end date. Use this format for dates: four digits for year, two digits for month, and two digits for day. For example, to limit search results to documents published in January 1995, type 19950101-19950131
All Issue Numbers link: Click on this link to view a list of all the issues of Physical Review Letters online. In that list, click on an Issue link to view a list of the documents in any issue.
All Document Titles link: Click on this link to view a list of all the documents in all the issues of Physical Review Letters online, with the newest documents listed first.
WordList link: Click on this link to view the WordList form. It lets you view a list of all the Physical Review Letters online search words. From the WordList, you select a search word and EJO displays a list of the documents containing that word.
Physical Review Letters online has indexes that let you specify the document parts to search more precisely than the Search Type buttons do. To use the indexes, be sure that none of the Search Type buttons is selected. (Click on your browser's Reload button if one of the buttons is selected.) Then include the index label when you type your search words.
INDEX/DOCUMENT PART TYPE LABEL SEARCH WORDS EXAMPLE
All indexes keyword/ al: al:antiresonance
phrase
Basic keyword bi: bi:electromagnetic w transparency
Abstract keyword ab: ab:electromagnetic w transparency
Author keyword au: au:brown
Author phrase au= au=brown james l
Author affiliation keyword af: af:yale university
Cited author keyword ca: ca:brown
Cited author phrase ca= ca=brown james l
Cited publication keyword cp: cp:phys rev lett
Current Rapid Comunications keyword cr: cr:bethe
Current Rapid Comunications phrase cr= cr=bethe-like lattice calculations
Date of publication keyword dp: dp:19950705
Date received keyword dr: dr:19950701
Document number keyword dn: dn:123456789
Document type keyword dt: doping and dt:article
Figure caption keyword fg: fg:reduced nuclear amplitudes
Footnotes keyword fn: fn:SLAC
PACS classification keyword pc: pc:2530Bf
References keyword rf: rf:self-ionization w rev
Subject heading keyword sh: sh:condensed
Subject heading phrase sh= sh=condensed matter
Table title keyword tb: tb:power requirements
Title keyword ti: ti:phonons
Title phrase ti= ti=smectic-a films
Some computer search systems have stopwords, words that are not indexed because they occur frequently and do not add to the subject content of the indexes; these cannot be entered as search words. However, there are no stopwords in Physical Review Letters online, so you do not need to exclude any words.
Document Types: You can limit the documents retrieved to any one of the document types listed below using the Document Type Search Limits box.
TYPE DESCRIPTION
Reply Comments and replies, refereed comments, submitted by
readers, about previously published articles, and the
authors' replies to such comments
Serial Current Rapid Communications, bibliographic listing of the
Rapid Communications that have appeared in recent issues of
the Physical Review
Editorial Editorials, short articles that express the opinion of the
Editors or invited guests
Errata Errata, corrections to previously published articles
Regular Letters, refereed reports of research results and new
developments in the field
To view all types of documents, do not limit searches by document type. You can limit documents to a combination of document types using the document type (dt:) index label in your search instead of using the Document Type Search Limits box. You cannot use this index label alone; it must be combined with other indexes and terms using AND or NOT. For example, enter conductance and dt:(regular or errata).
Subject Headings: Subject headings are used in Physical Review Letters online results lists to identify documents by the subject area covered. You can limit the documents retrieved to any one of the subject headings listed below using the Subject Heading Search Limits box. To search all documents, do not limit searches by subject heading.
SUBJECT HEADING Announcement Atomic molecular "and" optical physics Condensed matter electronic properties etc Condensed matter structure etc Cross-disciplinary physics Current Rapid Communications Editorial Editorial note Elementary particles "and" fields General physics Gravitation "and" astrophysics Nonlinear dynamics fluid dynamics classical optics etc Nuclear physics Other general journal information Plasma "and" beam physics
Publication Date: To limit the documents retrieved to documents published within a range of dates, use the Publication Dates Search Limits box.
You can also limit documents to a range of dates using the date of publication (dp:) index label in the Search For box. The date format is year, followed by month, followed by day. For example, to retrieve documents published during the period March 15 through 31, 1995, include and dp:19950315-19950331 in the Search For box.
August 4, 1995b