Author Search By Keywords

A-1. Author Search

Author search is searching for author information by entering a keyword.

• Keyword field

  • To search for an exact phrase
  • Multiple keywords may be entered, each keyword separated byspaces (both English half-width spaces and Japanese full-width spaces are acceptable). In this situation, the spaces act as "AND" and all keywords are searched for.
  • If numbers (numeric characters) are used as keywords, either both English single-byte characters and Japanese double-byte characters are acceptable.

  Search Example

  Search for authorname "Adachi"
  Enter as below, and then click the search button.

  

A-2. About search

• Multiple keywords may be entered, each keyword separated by spaces (both English half-width spaces and Japanese full-width spaces are acceptable).
  Specify the logic operation using "Combination of keywords". To search for a string that includes spaces, enclose the string in double quotes ("). Example: Inputting "information processing" returns search results for records containing "computer information processing" and "information processing society", excluding those records that contain "processing and information" and "information on processing".


• To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase with slashes. Example: Inputting /Smith, John/ returns search results for records containing only "Smith, John", excluding those records that contain "Smith, John, Jr.", "Smith, John A.".


• To search for terms by prefix word , use an asterisk. Example: Inputting work* returns search results for records containing "worker" and "working".


• Boolean search
  • Boolean searches (AND,OR,NOT) can be run like the following.
    
    
  • Search using "AND"・・・ Search for authors containing all entered keywords. Specify using spaces (English half-width spaces and Japanese full-width spaces) or "_&_" (where _ is a space, as in the example below).
    Example: Inputting "informatics association" or "informatics & association" returns search results for authors containing both "informatics and "association"
  
  
  • Search using OR ・・・ Search for authors containing any of the entered keywords. Specify using "_OR_"(OR is written in English full-width/half-width characters and upper case letters) or "_|_" (where _ is a space, as in the example below.)
    Example: Inputting "Smith OR John" or "Smith | John" returns search results for authors containing either "Smith" or "John" or both.
  
  
  • Search using NOT ・・・Search for records containing the entered keyword(s) but excluding the keyword after NOT. Specify using "_NOT_" (NOT is written in English full-width/half-width characters and upper case letters) or add "_-" (where _ is a space and - is an English half-width hyphen) after the main keyword(s) but before the term to be excluded.
    Example: Inputting "Smith NOT John" or "Smith - John" returns search results for records containing "Smith", excluding those records that contain "John".
  
  
  • Priority of Boolean search using parentheses ・・・You can specify priority of Boolean search using parentheses.
    Example1: Inputting "Smith NOT (John & William)" returns search results for authors containing "Smith", excluding those records that both contain "John" and "William". Search results contain "Smith John", "Smith William", not "Smith John William".
    Example2: Inputting "( Smith NOT Johnson) & John" returns search results for records containing both "Smith" excluding those records that contain "Johnson", and containin "John". Search results contain "Smith John", not "Smith Johnson", "Johnson John".