Search

With indexed search, you can find any words in a Biblioscape database. Although indexed can not limit search to a certain data field, there are several ways to make an indexed search very powerful.

*	Multi-character wildcard. "analog*" will find "analogs", "analogues", etc.
?	Single character wildcard. "h?v" will find "HIV", "HOV", etc.
AND	Satisfy both conditions. "nucleoside AND cancer" will find records that have both words "nucleoside" and "cancer".
OR	Satisfy one of the conditions. "nucleoside OR hiv" will find records that have word "nucleoside", or "cancer", or both of them.
NOT	Not satisfy a condition. "synthesis AND NOT nucleoside" will find records that have word "synthesis" but does not have word "nucleoside".
LIKE	Sounds like. "LIKE isak" will find records with words that sounds like "isak".
NEAR	Appear closely together within 8 words. "nucleoside NEAR synthesis" will find records that have words "nucleoside" and "synthesis" near each together.
"..."	Specify a phrase. For example: "boronic acid" AND cancer
(...)	Specify search precedence. For example: (nucleoside AND cancer) AND NOT 1990

 

Advanced search can let you do a more refined search. For example, you can specify a query to find all records that are published after "1990" by "Smith".

"_" wildcard character matches any single character. "%" matches any sequence of zero or more characters. It is not necessary to use "%" wildcard at the beginning and end of a query.

For Integer field like "Year" and "Reference ID", you can use ">", "<", "between" condition. For example:
Year > 1990
Year between 1990 and 1994

For data fields like "Date", "Date of Input", "Date Modified", date in ANSI format (yyyy-mm-dd) has to be used and it has to be inside a single quote. You can use ">", "<", "between" condition. For example:
Date of Input < '1999-09-12'
Date of Input between '1998-12-04' and '1999-03-21'