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Search the Full Title Field

Enter any or all words from the title of the journal in any order. This is the full title with no words abbreviated, they are fully spelled out. You can truncate words with the # character (e.g., phys#). In addition, the search terms and, or, and and not may be used to further restrict your search.

Examples:

• american
• american and mathematical
• european physical journal
• euro# phys# journal

Search the Short Title Field

The short title field is the abbreviated version of the journal title. Enter any or all of the abbreviated words in any order. You can truncate words with the # character (e.g. phys#). In addition, the search terms and, or, and and not may be used to further restrict your search.

Examples:

• Eur. Phys. J.
• eur.phys#

Search the Coden Field

The journal code, or coden, is the 5 character code that is unique and permanent to all journals. This coden is useful to you when building your references list. The SPIRES system uses it a lot when keeping track of citations and linking it up to author's papers. You can truncate the term with the # character.

Examples

• ARNUA
• NUPH#

SPIRES Command Searching

If you are familiar with the syntax for command line searching in SPIRES, you have the ability to search all the SPIRES databases with this command language. Please use the following as a refresher in how to construct the find commands. You can send email to library@slac.stanford.edu for assistance in constructing a find command.

Examples of SPIRES command line searches

find title combustion and science
find title combustion or science
find code CBSTB

Constructing a FIND command

The format of the SPIRES FIND command is. . .
 
      FIND index-name search-term(s) [ Boolean Operator index-name search-term ]

• FIND is the required word.
• Index-name is one of the indexes (see below).
• Search-term(s) is the word or words you wish to search on.

You may search using the following full index names or their abbreviations (listed in parenthesis). TITLE (T), SHORT-TITLE (ST) or CODE (C)

Full Title search. The full title field has the title of the journal fully spelled out with no abbreviations. You only need to know a few words in the title. You would search this field by the command:

          find title computer physics

Short Title search. It is enough to know only one word from a title, but a search will often be more efficient if you type more than one word. The order of title-words in your request is unimportant. Do not use commas to separate the words. (e.g., find title comp# phys#). Examples:

          find title comput.Phys.

Coden search. You can enter the journal code in as a find command to check the full or short title of a journal. Examples:

          find code CPHYE

Search Operators

A more complicated search may be entered using the logical operators and, or, and and not. For example, typing find title physics and st comp# yields all journal titles with the word physics and the short title word beginning with comp.

Truncation

The truncation symbol, #, may be used for some indices if the spelling of a word is not known or if a more general search is desired. For efficient searches, it should be used sparingly, and only with the Full Title and Short Title fields.

Enter a SPIRES Search Command

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Journal Code Display

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CRABA

Full title: Academie Bulgare des Sciences. Comptes Rendus Short title: Compt.Rend.Acad.Sci.Bulg.

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What Information is Displayed

When displaying information about a journal title, we display the journal code, the full title and the abbreviated or short title.

Journal Code

Full title: Full Title Short title: Short Title

Questions and Comments to library@slac.stanford.edu
Updated: February 18, 2000
File: /spires/coden/help.html