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Searching the Group Author Index

This index allows you to select one or more group authors to add to your search query. Selected names are searched in the Group Author(s) field of a record.

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Browse Option

Click a letter (A-Z) to browse through a list of items alphabetically. This feature is useful if you do not know the correct spelling of an item.

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Move To Option

1. Enter a publication title or the first few characters of a title in the Move To text field. 

2. Click the Move To button to go to a list of items that begin with the characters that you entered. For example, if you enter cell as the search term, the product finds every title in the index that begins with Cell.

3. Click the Add button to select a title from the list. The selected title is added to the text box at the bottom of the page.

4. Click OK to transfer the selected title(s) to the search field on the Basic Search / Advanced Search page.

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Find Option

1. Enter a word or phrase in the Find text field. Wildcards (* $ ?) are permitted. You must enter at least two characters before the wildcard, for example, Ps*.

2. Click the Find button to go to a list of items that contain the term or terms that you entered. For example, if you enter semiconductor* as the search term, you will retrieve all titles that contain the text semiconductor, including Advances in Semiconductor Lasers and Physics of Organic Semiconductors.

3. Click the Add button to select a title from the list. The selected title is added to the text box at the bottom of the page.

4. Click OK to transfer the selected title(s) to the search field on the Basic Search or Advanced Search page.

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Subscription Information

Be aware that we limit the display of author names based on the depth of years in your institution's product subscription. For example, if your subscription depth is 10 years, then we only display those authors who have published articles within this 10-year period even though the author may have published works earlier than this period.

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Abbreviations

Be sure to search for abbreviations as well as full names. The names of many institutions may be represented in more than one way in the database. For example, the Food and Drug Administration is represented as FOOD DRUG ADM as well as FDA.

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Timespan

The selected timespan appears in the right-hand corner of the page. The index contains all searchable items (and a record count) for this timespan.

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Wildcards and Search Operators

Wildcards (* $ ?) and search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, SAME) are treated as regular alphabetic characters. Do not use them in your search.

If an author name (or set of initials) contains a word that is a search operator, then that part of the name is enclosed in quotation (") marks.

Example: Or E appears as "Or" E