SEARCH SCREEN

The Search screen allows for field specific searching as well as free text searching of the IDIS index record database.

The searchable fields are:

All Fields
Drugs
Diseases
Descriptors
Title
Author(s)
Abstract
Journal Citation
Article Number
Sequence Number

All Fields allows for searching of Title, Author, Journal, Drug, Disease, Descriptor and Abstract fields as well as searching the Drug and Disease Thesauri for cross reference terms. The Drug and Disease Thesauri are also searched when searching in the Drug and Disease fields. Only valid terms may be used in the Descriptor field. Text word searching may be used in the Title and Abstract fields.

Where available, click on the button beside the field to see a list of available terms for a field. Click on the Search button to execute the search.

Logical operators (AND, OR, NOT) can be entered within a field to look for records based on more than one term.

The Connection or Boolean box beside the field box determines the search behavior when more than one field is searched. The default Boolean operator is AND. Click on the arrow in the box to change the operator to OR or NOT. The retrieval system builds the search statement by combining fields starting at the top of the search screen and reading from left to right.