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Selecting a Search Language

The search language is the language of the database content you wish to search.

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Selecting a Search Language

1. Scroll down to the More Settings section of the Search page.

2. Go to the Search language menu.

3. The default setting is Auto select. This option allows you to enter search terms in English or Arabic. The system automatically detects the language of the search term(s) and searches the appropriate index.

4. Select English to search only English-language database content. Select Arabic to search only Arabic-language database content. 

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About the Search Language

In selecting a search language, you select an index to search. For example, if you select English and search the Author field, the system will search the index that contains English-language author names. It will not search the index that contains Arabic-language names.

If Auto-select is the setting, the system will detect the language of the search term(s) and search the appropriate index. For example:  

To find all records in which either لحسبان, يسرى عبدالكريم or Alhusban, Yusra is an author, perform two searches. Then go to Search History and combine the two search sets using the OR operator:

The name Alhusban, Yusra may appear in the author list in records from other databases, not just the Arabic Citation Index. Consequently, the search Author: (Alhusban, Yusra) performed in the Arabic Citation Index may return fewer records than if you perform the same search in All Databases.

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Scientific Terms and Abbreviations

Many scientific terms and abbreviations always appear in English. For example:

• DNA
• PCR
• RAPD
• RNA
• NaCl

These are included in indexes of Arabic language fields as well as indexes of English language fields.

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Interface Language

You can view user interface text and help text in the following languages:

• Arabic
• English
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

See Selecting an Interface Language.

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Language Field

The Language field in a Full Record displays the language in which the source document was published.