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basic information should assist you in
achieving more successful search results.
Results are listed in order of 'relevance'
- this means that articles containing
the greatest number of your search terms
in the greatest frequency will be listed
first.
In general, you should use lower-case in
all of your searches and avoid the use of
punctuation marks and characters etc. Commas
may be used in Author searches and hyphens
may be used in Subject, Author and Keyword
searches as described below.
Search Field Examples:
In the 'Search the Journal
for Articles containing' box, you
may enter keywords, author names, titles
and dates to perform a quick broad search
of the journal database.
Author - Names should be entered
by surname.
Title/Abstract - should not include
starting words such as 'The',
'An' or 'A'
e.g.'The EMS book' is incorrect
'EMS book'
is correct. This rule only applies to
the first word of the title and not those
words within the title.
Keyword searches will retrieve
all articles containing the keyword
that you enter in the search field.
Keywords will match any article which
contains your keyword
if it is listed in its
keyword category.
e.g. If
you enter the words 'prehospital research',
the search engine will return all
articles which include the keywords
'prehospital research', but will not
list those articles which
You may include hyphens in your keysearch
search, as in:
- pre-hospital
- record-keeping
- 1979-1999
Date - Enter the date of publication
by year.
Search Errors
There are two reasons that your search may
fail to return articles: if an error occurrs
within the search engine, or if there are
no articles matching the search criteria.If
your search was executed properly but did
not return any articles, the message "Your
search retrieved zero articles" will be
displayed. There is also the possibility that
no articles matching your interests are yet
in the journal's collection. Try to refine
your search and use alternative keywords.
Finally, if an error cannot be resolved,
please contact us, using the feedback
form to describe the problem.
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