diff --git a/modules/websearch/doc/Makefile.am b/modules/websearch/doc/Makefile.am index 8e3d9f00f..337cd5a28 100644 --- a/modules/websearch/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/modules/websearch/doc/Makefile.am @@ -1,44 +1,45 @@ ## $Id$ ## This file is part of the CERN Document Server Software (CDSware). ## Copyright (C) 2002 CERN. ## ## The CDSware is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ## published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the ## License, or (at your option) any later version. ## ## The CDSware is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ## General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with CDSware; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., ## 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. SUBDIRS = admin hacking docdir = $(WEBDIR)/help/search doc_DATA=index.en.html index.fr.html index.de.html index.es.html index.pt.html index.it.html index.ru.html index.sk.html index.cz.html index.no.html index.se.html \ - tips.en.html tips.fr.html tips.de.html tips.pt.html tips.es.html tips.it.html tips.ru.html tips.sk.html tips.cz.html tips.no.html tips.se.html + tips.en.html tips.fr.html tips.de.html tips.pt.html tips.es.html tips.it.html tips.ru.html tips.sk.html tips.cz.html tips.no.html tips.se.html \ + guide.en.html guide.fr.html guide.de.html guide.pt.html guide.es.html guide.it.html guide.ru.html guide.sk.html guide.cz.html guide.no.html guide.se.html FILESWML = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.wml) EXTRA_DIST = $(FILESWML:$(srcdir)/%=%) CLEANFILES = $(doc_DATA) *~ *.tmp %.en.html %.fr.html %.de.html %.es.html %.pt.html %.it.html %.ru.html %.sk.html %.cz.html %.no.html %.se.html: %.html.wml $(top_srcdir)/config/config.wml $(top_builddir)/config/configbis.wml \ $(top_srcdir)/config/messages.wml $(WML) -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_EN:$*.en.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_FR:$*.fr.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_DE:$*.de.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_ES:$*.es.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_PT:$*.pt.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_IT:$*.it.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_RU:$*.ru.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_SK:$*.sk.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_CZ:$*.cz.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_NO:$*.no.html \ -o\(ALL-LANG_*\)+LANG_SE:$*.se.html $< diff --git a/modules/websearch/doc/tips.html.wml b/modules/websearch/doc/guide.html.wml similarity index 97% copy from modules/websearch/doc/tips.html.wml copy to modules/websearch/doc/guide.html.wml index 611564236..78818a5ef 100644 --- a/modules/websearch/doc/tips.html.wml +++ b/modules/websearch/doc/guide.html.wml @@ -1,1687 +1,1706 @@ ## $Id$ ## This file is part of the CERN Document Server Software (CDSware). ## Copyright (C) 2002 CERN. ## ## The CDSware is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ## published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the ## License, or (at your option) any later version. ## ## The CDSware is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ## General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with CDSware; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., ## 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. #include "cdspage.wml" \ - title="" \ + title="Search Guide" \ navbar_name="search-new" \ navtrail_previous_links="/help/> > /help/search/>" \ - navbar_select="tips" + navbar_select="guide"

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Unsere Suchmaschine bietet den heutigen Stand der Web-Such Technologie, die auch von bekannten Suchmaschinen wie zum Beispiel Google angeboten werden. Im Detail unterscheidet sich jedoch die bibliographische Suche von einer Web-Suche. Wir bieten mehrere Erweiterungen an, damit eine komplexe und genau strukturierte Suche möglich wird, inklusiv einer kombinierten Metadatensuche, Volltextsuche und Referenzsuche. Diese Seite stellt Tipps und Tricks vor, die für eine effektive Suche nützlich sind.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

Our search engine tries to offer today's typical web searching experience, as gained with popular search engines such as Google. The nature of bibliographic searching differs from that of a web page searching, though. We provide many extensions to enable a complex and precise structured search, including an combined metadata, fulltext and reference search in one go. This page lists several tips and tricks that you may find useful to this effect.

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Einfache versus erweiterte Suche
    Grundlagen
    Suche nach Wörtern und Wortgruppen
    Boolsche Suche
    Spezielle Zeichen und Notation
    Internationale Zeichen
    Trunkierung
    Strukturierte Metadatensuche
    Bereichs-Recherche
    Kombinierte Metadaten-/Volltext-/Zitatsuche
    FAQ
        Wie wähle ich am geschicktesten meinen Suchbegriff
        Wie suche ich nach Publikationen eines bestimmten Autors
        Wie lasse ich Ergebnisse auf eine bestimmte Weise sortieren
        Wie bekomme ich Dokumente anderer Server (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        Wie kann ich in verknüpften Volltextdateien suchen
        Wie kann ich nach Zitaten suchen

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

    Simple versus advanced search
    Search guidance
    Searching for words versus phrases
    Boolean queries
    Special characters and punctuation
    International characters
    Word truncation/stemming
    Structured metadata search
    Span queries
    Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search
    Frequently asked questions
        How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)
        How to search for publications by a given author
        How to sort according to a certain pattern
        How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)
        How to search in fulltext files
        How to search for citations

Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Einfache versus erweiterte Suche Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search Simple versus advanced search

The default search mode is simple search that basically provides you with one input box where you can type your query, followed by a possibility to choose one of the common indexes to search within. You would usually simply type the keywords you are interested in and hit return. For example, if you are interested in documents on standard model that are written by (or mention) Ellis, you would type:

and on the search results page you could further add/remove keywords to get more precisely at what you are looking for, as is mentioned below.

The advanced search interface provides you with explicit tools to play with: you can change the matching type from the default word matching to phrase searching or the regular matching; you can use boolean queries in several indexes, etc. For example, to find all the documents written by Ellis, J spelled exactly that way that contain either of the words muon or neutrino in the title and that were published in 2001, you would type:

 

Note that Simple Search can provide you basically the same functionality, if you make use of special syntax that is explained in the text below. The simple-versus-advanced does not refer to the functionality that is being provided but rather to the amount of parametrization you can "tweak". We conform to the common use of the simple/advanced terms as found in other search engines.

Much of what follows will deal with a question on "how a power user would use the simple search interface". Recall that you can always go to the Advanced Search for more query assistance.

Search guidance Search guidance Grundlagen Search guidance Search guidance Search guidance Search guidance Search guidance Search guidance Search guidance Search guidance

After you submit your query, the search engine will analyze it and will try to always guide you in case no exact match could be found. For example, it would print you a list of closest indexed terms in case of spelling troubles:

Alternative choices will be printed in red. The search engine will similarly warn you when your search terms could not be found, or when they could but your boolean query couldn't be met. The search engine will also silently try to search for alternative forms (e.g. remove punctuation), etc.

Thanks to multiple search stages and the guidance provided at each stage, it is usually sufficient to simple type what you are looking for and see what the system says in return. If you aren't satisfied, you would then add/remove words from your query until the satisfactory reply.

Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Suche nach Wörtern und Wortgruppen Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases Searching for words versus phrases

The default search mode is a search for words. This means that any whitespace you type is not significant, but is rather interpreted to mean "add an automatic boolean AND between words", like Google does. For example, to find all records that contain both the word ellis and the word muon anywhere in the record, type:

The whitespace would be significant if you include it within quotes. There are two phrase searching modes:
  1. The double quotes instruct the search engine to search for exact phrase. This phrase search mode will match if and only if the given metadata field is exactly equal to the input pattern. For example, to find all documents written by Ellis, J spelled exactly that way, type:
  2. The single quotes instruct the search engine to search for partial phrase. Unlike the exact phrase search, this mode allows for an extra text appearing before/after given pattern. This is somewhat similar to the "phrase search mode" common on Google and other fulltext engines that search for phrase expressions inside Web pages. For example, to find all the titles containing the expression muon decay regardless of the position of the expression in the title, type:
    Now you see how to search for an author spelled sometimes as Ellis, J and sometimes as Ellis, Jonathan Richard (and other authors, such as De Lellis, Jim) at the same time:
    (See also our specific author searching tips.)
The difference between exact and partial phrase searching modes may not be obvious upon first look. While the latter is more similar to what ``phrase search'' usually means in the context of web page search engines, the former one is usually an order of magnitude faster if you know the precise values you are looking for.

Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolsche Suche Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolean queries Boolean queries

We have already seen how whitespace adds a silent boolean AND in the search for words. The other boolean operators include:
+
AND 		ellis +muon matches all records that contain both the word ellis and the the word muon
ellis muon ditto, syntactic sugar
ellis and muon ditto, syntactic sugar
-
NOT 		ellis -muon matches all records that contain the word ellis but that do not contain the word muon
ellis not muon ditto, syntactic sugar
|
OR 		ellis |muon matches all records that contain at least one of the words
ellis or muon ditto, syntactic sugar
-

Logical operations are automatically chained from left to right (no -parenthesis support at the moment). This permits you to easily refine -your searching by adding/removing words with +,- signs. For example, -to find the documents including words muon or kaon, as well as with the -word ellis, type: +

Logical operations are automatically chained from left to right. +For example, if you want to search for documents written by Ellis on +muons or kaons, write:

- +
- -to get, say, 100 hits. Now if you want to exlude records dealing with -the decay, append the exclusion term at the end: + +which looks for (muon or kaon) and ellis. Note that this +gives different results from:
- +
-to get, say, 70 hits in a refined list. Keep adding/removing terms -until the satisfaction. +which would search for (ellis and muon) or kaon. + +

The left-to-right chaining behaviour permits you to easily refine +your search by adding/removing words with and/not or +/- operators. +For example, to exclude the documents on decay from the above search, +append -decay: + +

+
+ + + +
+
+ +to get a refined list. Keep adding/removing terms until you are +satisfied. -

Note again that a left-to-right boolean chaining means that, if you -type ellis muon or kaon you will be effectively searching -for a pseudo-expression "(ellis and muon) or kaon". A search for -"ellis and (muon or kaon)" is to be written as muon or kaon -ellis.

Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Spezielle Zeichen und Notation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation Special characters and punctuation

When indexing words, an attention is paid to index it both with and without punctuation, so that you should be able to search for terms containing special characters, such as C++, verbatim:

For example, to find records containing the LaTeX expression $e^{+}e^{-}$ in the title, type:
For example, to find document with the report number hep-ph/0204133, type:
Note that the search is case-insensitive:

International characters International characters Internationale Zeichen International characters International characters International characters International characters International characters International characters International characters International characters

The search engine works with Unicode UTF-8 so you can type your query strings in any language stored in the database. For example, to find the documents written by (or on) Пушкин, type:

Note that you don't have to type accents to find accented results. For example, type Lemaitre to find papers by Lemaître:
" "1" "

IMPORTANT NOTE
Currently, words that include accented characters can only be retrieved by entering accented characters in the query.
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Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Trunkierung Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming Word truncation/stemming

The word truncation is supported via asterisk (*) wildcard character. The wildcard instructs the search engine to match any number of characters in that place. For example, to find records that contain words muon, muons, muonic etc, type:

The wildcard query works both in prefix and infix position. For example, to get all the words that start by CERN-TH and end by 31, type:
Note that the wildcard will be ignored if you try to apply it to very short words, such as a*:
The wildcard character can be used also in the phrase searching mode. For example, to find all the documents whose title starts by "Neutrino mass", type:
Recall that we have introduced exact and partial phrase search modes. Actually, a partial phrase search mode launches an exact search enclosed within wildcards: we could say that 'foo bar baz' equals to "*foo bar baz*". Now you can see why the partial phrase search is slow: due to the usage of two asterisks in front and after the text, each and every title in the database has to be looked up to determine whether it matches or not. (There are currently no partial phrase indexes.)

Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Strukturierte Metadatensuche Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Structured metadata search Structured metadata search

Searching within various bibliograpic fields (such as title, author) is supported via Google's "site:" like syntax. If a search term is preceded by a field name and a colon, then the term is searched for inside this field only. For example, to find documents containing the word ellis within author index, type:

To select documents written by Ellis that contain words like muon, muons, muonic within title, type:
+ To select documents written by the NA60 experiment from + the year 2001, type: + +
+
+ + + +
+
+ The most common fields you may want to use are author, title, reportnumber, abstract, - keyword, year, fulltext, - and reference. + keyword, year, experiment, + fulltext, and reference.

Span queries Span queries Bereichs-Recherche Span queries Span queries Span queries Span queries Span queries Span queries Span queries Span queries

The span query is provided via a -> sign. For example, to search for all documents on muon decay published between 1983 and 1992, type:

To find all documents by authors with names ranging from Ellis, J to Ellis, Qqq, type:

Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Kombinierte Metadaten-/Volltext-/Zitatsuche Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search Combined metadata/fulltext/citation search

All the syntax mentioned above can be combined together in one query. For example, to find documents that have the word ellis inside author fields, that do not contain words like muon, 'muonic' etc in any field, that contain the phrase (or the substring, to be more precise) 'dense quark matter' inside abstract fields, and that were published in year starting by digits '200', type:

Note that the default "any field" global index does contain only the metadata terms, not the citation nor fulltext terms. You have to explicitely mention fulltext or reference index to search there. For example, to find the term Higgs in either metadata, references or fulltext files, type:
This permits an interesting combination of metadata, fulltext and citation search in the same query. For example, to get all documents written by Lin whose fulltext files contain the words Schwarzschild and AdS, and who cite journal Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., type:
" "1" "

IMPORTANT NOTE
Currently, fulltext files and references are not fully searchable on the CERN site. Assumed operational time: Q1 2004.
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Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions FAQ Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions

How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) Wie wähle ich am geschicktesten meinen Suchbegriff How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise)

  • Whenever possible, prefer word searches instead of phrase searches. Search rather for black hole than for "black hole".
  • Avoid common terms such as and, of, or CERN.
  • If you are searching for a specific metadata information, such as a report number, choose corresponding index.
  • If you are looking for a specific document collection, such as Theses, choose the Theses collection first, and start your search from there.

How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author Wie suche ich nach Publikationen eines bestimmten Autors How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author How to search for publications by a given author

You can search for an author in many ways, each having its own advantages and disadvantages.

  1. First of all, note that searching for words isn't usually what you would want here. If you choose to search for the words Ellis J within the author index, it means that two queries (for the words Ellis and J) are effected first and a boolean AND is performed next:

    Such a query would match also a document whose first author is Ellis, R and the second author Finch, A J, which is probably not what you wanted. While the search is very fast and you would have found the results for the author you were looking for, such a technique could have returned you many false positives, as the one cited above. Instead of searching for words, a more suitable technique to apply in this case is to search for phrases which will permit you to achieve higher search precisions.

  2. The author names are usually stored in a form containing initials only, such as Ellis, J. To get the list of publications of an author whose name is spelled exactly that way, type:

    This way of searching gives you the highest precision and no false positives. (Assuming there are no other authors whose names are spelled Ellis, J, an assumption that is often false*.) The search is very fast.

  3. Sometimes an author's first name may be spelled abbreviated on some documents (such as Ellis, J) and sometimes full on others (such as Ellis, John; eventually also with the middle name: Ellis, John Rolfe). To get the list of publications for all these forms at the same time, you could use a boolean OR query:

    This way of searching still keeps the highest precision and no false positives. (Assuming there are no other authors whose names are spelled Ellis, J or Ellis, John, an assumption that is often false*.) The search is fast.

  4. To match all of the above forms in a single search term, you can try to use a wildcard query:

    It would match all author names that start by the text Ellis, J, i.e. not only the wanted forms Ellis, J and Ellis, John, but also Ellis, Jim, or Ellis, John Rolfe, or Ellis, Jonathan Richard.

    This way of searching returns you more results, which may be suitable in case you don't know how the names are spelled in the database. But you also risk the eventuality of getting false positives. The search is relatively fast.

  5. Yet another, the most general alternative is to use a partial phrase matching:

    It would find not only all the authors mentioned above, but also the ones whose names contain the expression Ellis, J anywhere inside the name, such as De Lellis, Jim. It thus gives you the largest possible number of hits at the largest risk of false positives. The search is relatively slow.

    (Note though that this way of searching may be very handy in case of compound family names such Pepe-Altarelli, M or 't Hooft, G where a casual user query for Hooft, G would match the wanted author, unlike the methods mentioned above.)

*NOTE: If you produce your own list of publications and you notice that sometimes your first name is spelled abbreviated and sometimes in full, or if you want to identify your publications among several authors with the same abbreviation, please contact the administrators of so that they could work with you on inputting a consistently spelled and properly formatted first name everywhere. Only the consistent database content will ensure a proper author searching behaviour.

How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern Wie lasse ich Ergebnisse auf eine bestimmte Weise sortieren How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern How to sort according to a certain pattern

You may select a certain field according to which sort the search results, for example to sort the results by main title. However, sometimes you may want to sort by a report number and it happens that your documents have several of them. For example, the report numbers hep-ph/0204140, CERN-TH-2002-069 and RM3-TH-02-4 all denote the same document. Now if you sort your search results set containing this document, the system will take into consideration the first report number, that may be either of these three. Sometimes you may want to classify this document under its hep-ph number, sometimes under its CERN number, depending on whether you produce a list of CERN or hep-ph publications. How can you influence the search engine to prefer one report number rather than the other?

In other words, the search engine by default answers a query like "sort by first author" or "sort by first report number", but sometimes you may want to ask the search engine to "sort by first report number that starts by the text CERN-". The latter possibility is available via a "silent" sort parameter called sp (for "sort pattern") that sorts preferentially according to the given textual pattern if they can be found. The parameter is "silent" in a way that it is not present in the search interface, you have to add it manually to your search URL. For example, to get all CERN-TH publications of the year 2001 sorted by their CERN-TH numbers, you would search for CERN-TH-2001* within reportnumber index, and on the search results page, being satisfied with the results, you would add &sp=CERN-TH to the URL to sort the results preferentially by CERN-TH report numbers, to get a nicely sorted list of all CERN-TH 2001 publications.

How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) Wie bekomme ich Dokumente anderer Server (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK)

On the search results page, links to other servers like Google, SPIRES or KEK are automatically proposed in a box entitled "Try your search on". You can simply click on the proposed links to run your query on these search engines.

Note that the links aren't printed if the search engine doesn't support it. For example, SPIRES or KEK cannot search for terms within "any field", so we don't link to them in these cases. " "1" "

Note also that KEK has scanned a lot of old CERN reports. If you find that we don't have fulltext to some old CERN report, it may be worthy to look there. For example, search for CERN ISR-MA/73-17 in our system:

and you will see that CDS contains the document in the archives only, i.e. not in a electronic format. However, if you follow the proposed KEK search link, you will see that KEK proposes "scanned images" that you can download. ">

How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files Wie kann ich in verknüpften Volltextdateien suchen How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files How to search in fulltext files

If a metadata record contains some associated fulltext files, tries to extract the textual information from the files and index it into a separate fulltext index. To search for all records that contain the term e- in their fulltext files, type:

Recall that fulltext words aren't included in the default global ``any field'' index, but that you may freely combine a fulltext and metadata search. For example, to find all articles written by Ellis that contain the word muon either in the metadata or in the fulltext, type:
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Currently, the fulltext indexes aren't available on the CERN site. Assumed operational time: Q1 2004. Please use the old fulltext interface instead in the meantime.
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How to search for citations How to search for citations Wie kann ich nach Zitaten suchen How to search for citations How to search for citations How to search for citations How to search for citations How to search for citations How to search for citations How to search for citations How to search for citations

If a metadata record contains an associated fulltext file, tries to extract references automatically from that file and index them into a separate reference index. To search for all records that cite Ellis in their reference lists, type:

To search for all records that cite preprint hep-ph/0103062 in their reference lists, type:
To search for all records that cite an article from Giddings and Ross published in Physical Review D in volume 61 in year 2000, type:
Recall that citation terms aren't included in the default global "any field" index, but that you may freely combine a citation search with a metadata search. For example, to find all articles on standard model that aren't written by Ellis but that do cite him, type:
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IMPORTANT NOTE
Currently, the reference indexes aren't available on the CERN site. The citation search is therefore impossible at the moment. Assumed operational time: Q1 2004.
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This page presents you with useful tips and techniques in order to help you use the site to the full. Cette page vous présente des suggestions et des techniques qui puissent vous être utiles afin d'utiliser le site de à plein. Diese Seite zeigt Ihnen alle nützliche Tipps und Techniken die beim zur Verfügung stehen. This page presents you with useful tips and techniques in order to help you use the site to the full. This page presents you with useful tips and techniques in order to help you use the site to the full. Questa pagina vi fornisce utili consigli per servirvi al meglio . This page presents you with useful tips and techniques in order to help you use the site to the full. Táto stránka Vám ponúka užitočné tipy a triky ktoré Vám umožnia plne využívať možností . Tato stránka Vám nabízí užitečné tipy a triky které Vám umožní plně využívat možností . Denne siden presenter nyttige tips og teknikker slik at du lettere kan få fullt utbytte av sine sider. Denna sida ger dig användbara tips och tekniker för att hjälpa dig att till fullo använda denna webbplats som erbjuder dig. +
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The default search mode is simple search that -basically provides you with one input box where you can type your -query, followed by a possibility to choose one of the common indexes -to search within. You would usually simply type the keywords you are -interested in and hit return. For example, if you are interested in -documents on standard model that are written by (or mention) -Ellis, you would type: +

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Alternative choices will be printed in red. The search engine -will similarly warn you when your search terms could not be -found, or when they could but your boolean query couldn't be met. The -search engine will also silently try to search for alternative forms -(e.g. remove punctuation), etc. - -

Thanks to multiple search stages and the guidance provided at each -stage, it is usually sufficient to simple type what you are looking -for and see what the system says in return. If you aren't satisfied, -you would then add/remove words from your query until the satisfactory -reply. - -

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The default search mode is a search for words. This -means that any whitespace you type is not significant, but is rather -interpreted to mean "add an automatic boolean AND between words", like -Google does. For example, to find all records that contain both the -word ellis and the word muon anywhere in the record, -type: +

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- ditto, syntactic sugar + +Returns records containing muon but not kaon.
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How to find documents from a certain period:
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- ditto, syntactic sugar + +Type 2003 and select the year field.
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How to search for authors:
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-ditto, syntactic sugar + +Find papers by J.Ellis written from 1990 until 1993, using truncation +to match all first names beginning with J.
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Logical operations are automatically chained from left to right (no -parenthesis support at the moment). This permits you to easily refine -your searching by adding/removing words with +,- signs. For example, -to find the documents including words muon or kaon, as well as with the -word ellis, type: - -

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Note again that a left-to-right boolean chaining means that, if you -type ellis muon or kaon you will be effectively searching -for a pseudo-expression "(ellis and muon) or kaon". A search for -"ellis and (muon or kaon)" is to be written as muon or kaon -ellis. - -

-Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Spezielle Zeichen und Notation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -Special characters and punctuation -

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When indexing words, an attention is paid to index it both with and - without punctuation, so that you should be able to search for terms - containing special characters, such as C++, verbatim: - -

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The search engine works with Unicode UTF-8 so you can type your - query strings in any language stored in the database. For - example, to find the documents written by (or on) Пушкин, type: - -

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The word truncation is supported via asterisk (*) wildcard - character. The wildcard instructs the search engine to match any - number of characters in that place. For example, to find records - that contain words muon, muons, muonic - etc, type: - -

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-Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Strukturierte Metadatensuche -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -Structured metadata search -

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Searching within various bibliograpic fields (such as title, - author) is supported via Google's "site:" like syntax. - If a search term is preceded by a field name and a colon, then the - term is searched for inside this field only. For example, to find - documents containing the word ellis within author index, - type: - -

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The span query is provided via a -> sign. For -example, to search for all documents on muon decay published -between 1983 and 1992, type: - -

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All the syntax mentioned above can be combined together in one - query. For example, to find documents that have the word - ellis inside author fields, that do not contain words like - muon, 'muonic' etc in any field, that contain the phrase - (or the substring, to be more precise) 'dense quark matter' inside - abstract fields, and that were published in year starting by digits - '200', type: - -

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-How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -Wie wähle ich am geschicktesten meinen Suchbegriff -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -How to wisely choose your search terms (speed-wise) -

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  • Avoid common terms such as and, of, or CERN. -
  • If you are searching for a specific metadata information, such - as a report number, choose corresponding index. -
  • If you are looking for a specific document collection, such - as Theses, choose the - Theses collection first, and start your search from there. -
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-How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -Wie suche ich nach Publikationen eines bestimmten Autors -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -How to search for publications by a given author -

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  1. First of all, note that searching for words isn't usually what you -would want here. If you choose to search for the words Ellis -J within the author index, it means that two queries (for the -words Ellis and J) are effected first and a -boolean AND is performed next: - -
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    Such a query would match also a document whose first author is -Ellis, R and the second author Finch, A J, which is -probably not what you wanted. While the search is very fast and you -would have found the results for the author you were looking for, such -a technique could have returned you many false positives, as the one -cited above. Instead of searching for words, a more suitable -technique to apply in this case is to search for phrases which will -permit you to achieve higher search precisions. - -

  2. The author names are usually stored in a form containing initials -only, such as Ellis, J. To get the list of publications of -an author whose name is spelled exactly that way, type: - -
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    This way of searching gives you the highest precision and no false -positives. (Assuming there are no other authors whose names are -spelled Ellis, J, an assumption that is often false*.) The search is very fast. - -

  3. Sometimes an author's first name may be spelled abbreviated on -some documents (such as Ellis, J) and sometimes full on -others (such as Ellis, John; eventually also with the middle -name: Ellis, John Rolfe). To get the list of publications -for all these forms at the same time, you could use a boolean OR -query: - -
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    This way of searching returns you more results, which may be -suitable in case you don't know how the names are spelled in the -database. But you also risk the eventuality of getting false -positives. The search is relatively fast. - -

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    It would find not only all the authors mentioned above, but also -the ones whose names contain the expression Ellis, J -anywhere inside the name, such as De Lellis, Jim. It thus -gives you the largest possible number of hits at the largest risk of -false positives. The search is relatively slow. - -

    (Note though that this way of searching may be very handy in case -of compound family names such Pepe-Altarelli, M or 't -Hooft, G where a casual user query for Hooft, G would -match the wanted author, unlike the methods mentioned above.) - -

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*NOTE: -If you produce your own list of publications and you notice that -sometimes your first name is spelled abbreviated and sometimes in -full, or if you want to identify your publications among several -authors with the same abbreviation, please contact the administrators of so that -they could work with you on inputting a consistently spelled and -properly formatted first name everywhere. Only the consistent -database content will ensure a proper author searching behaviour. - -

-How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -Wie lasse ich Ergebnisse auf eine bestimmte Weise sortieren -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -How to sort according to a certain pattern -

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You may select a certain field according to which sort the search - results, for example to sort the results by main title. However, - sometimes you may want to sort by a report number and it happens - that your documents have several of them. For example, the report - numbers hep-ph/0204140, CERN-TH-2002-069 and - RM3-TH-02-4 all denote the - same document. Now if you sort your search results set - containing this document, the system will take into consideration - the first report number, that may be either of these three. - Sometimes you may want to classify this document under its - hep-ph number, sometimes under its CERN number, - depending on whether you produce a list of CERN or hep-ph - publications. How can you influence the search engine to prefer - one report number rather than the other? - -

In other words, the search engine by default answers a query - like "sort by first author" or "sort by first report number", but - sometimes you may want to ask the search engine to "sort by first - report number that starts by the text CERN-". The latter - possibility is available via a "silent" sort parameter called - sp (for "sort pattern") that sorts preferentially - according to the given textual pattern if they can be found. The - parameter is "silent" in a way that it is not present in the search - interface, you have to add it manually to your search URL. - - For example, to get all CERN-TH publications of the year 2001 - sorted by their CERN-TH numbers, you would search for - CERN-TH-2001* within reportnumber index, - and on the search results page, being satisfied with the results, - you would add &sp=CERN-TH to the URL to sort the - results preferentially by CERN-TH report numbers, to get a nicely - sorted list of all CERN-TH 2001 publications. - -

-How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -Wie bekomme ich Dokumente anderer Server (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -How to get documents from other servers (Google, SPIRES, KEK) -

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On the search results page, links to other servers like Google, SPIRES or KEK are -automatically proposed in a box entitled "Try your search on". You -can simply click on the proposed links to run your query on these -search engines. - -

Note that the links aren't printed if the search engine doesn't -support it. For example, SPIRES or KEK cannot search for terms within -"any field", so we don't link to them in these cases. - -" "1" " - -

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-How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -Wie kann ich in verknüpften Volltextdateien suchen -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -How to search in fulltext files -

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More information:
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