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Vendor Interface	Sample Databases Covered	Boolean	Truncation	Wildcard	Phrase	Proximity	Field Search
AND CompLex for Windows	Masterplots Complete	<and>, <or>, <not>	*	?	not available	not available	Use Index pulldown menu
ASCE Civil Engineering Database	ASCE Civil Engineering Database	and, or, not	*	not available	not available	not available	Use field input boxes
BiblioLine	Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide	and, or, not	*	?	adj	near#	Quick: Use field input boxes Expert: code=term au=davidson s*
Beilstein/Gmelin	Beilstein / Gmelin: Organic and Inorganic/ Organometallic Chemistry	and, or, not	*	?	default; use List Values button <F2> for field values.	proximity near next	Required for Fact Editor search; use List Values button <F2> to identify field codes.
Bowker Web	Books in Print	and, or, andnot	*	not available	not available	not available	Advanced: Use field input boxes.
CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Ecology Abstracts Technology Research Database Collection	and, or, not	*	?	default	within # Note: space before #	Advanced: Use pulldown menus Advanced Command Line: field code=term ti=mars
CCINFOweb	CCINFOweb MSDS	and, or, not	* automatic stemming	?	" "	<NEAR/#> <SENTENCE>	not available
CEEOL	CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library)	and, or	* put " "s around truncated term	not available	default	not available	Advanced: Use field input boxes.
Chadwyck - Healey	International Index to Music Periodicals MLA International Bibliography	and, or, not	*	?	default	near. #	Use field input boxes.
China Academic Journals	China Academic Journals	Advanced: and, or	not available	not available	default	not available	Use pulldown menus.
Congressional Quarterly	CQ Researcher	and, or, and not	*	?	" "	w/#	Use Advanced Search.
Dialog@Site	Thomas Register	and, or, not	?	not available	default?	.	Use field boxes
Dyabola	Dyabola (web version)	not available	not available	not available	not available	not available	Use Expert Search options.
EBSCOhost	Academic Search Elite PsycINFO	and, or, not	*	?	default	n# (any order) w# (in order)	Guided Search: Use pulldown menus Expert: code term au smith
Emerald	Emerald	and, or, not	*	not available	" "	not available	Quick Search: Click appropriate field box Advanced Search: Use field pulldown menus
Encyclopedia Britannica	Encyclopedia Britannica Online	not available	*	not available	not available	ADJ or " " (within 15 characters)	not available
Eureka	Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)	Advanced Search only: and, or, not	?	not available	not available	not available	Basic: Use radio buttons Advanced: Use pulldown menus
Facts on File News Service	Facts.com	and, or, not	*	*	" "	not available	not available
FirstSearch	WorldCat	and, or, not	* + for simple plurals s or es	#	w	n#	Advanced: Use pulldown menus.
GaleNet	Associations Unlimited	and, or, not	*	?	" "	n#	Custom: Use field input boxes Expert: field code term de film
Gale/Info Trac	Literature Resource Center	and, or	*	?	default	n#	Use pulldown menus
Google Scholar		none	automatic	not available	" "	not available	Advanced scholar search
Hispanic American Periodicals Index	HAPI Online	Default is and; otherwise unavailable	automatic	not available	not available	not available	Use field input boxes
IEEE	IEEE Xplore	Basic: and, or, not Advanced: <and>, <or>, <not>	automatic	not available	not available	not available	Basic: Use All Fields pulldown menu Advanced: term <in> code fiber <in> ti
ILI Infodisk Inc.	ILI Standards Infobase	and, or, not	*	not available	default	not available	Use field input boxes. When not appropriate, field code=term (use any box) la=english
Investext	Investext Plus	and, or	* ? within a term	!	" "	n#	Use COMPANY search box. Use Advanced Search and CONTRIBUTOR BROWSE to search for organizations that have contributed reports
ISI (Web of Knowledge)	Web of Science	and, or, not	*	?	" "	same	Use pulldown menus
JSTOR	JSTOR	Basic: and, or Advanced: and, or, andnot	+ for simple plurals s or es	not available	Basic: default Advanced: " "	near (pulldown menus)	Use pulldown menus
LEXIS/NEXIS	LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe	and, or, and not	!	*	default	w/#	Guided Search: Use pulldown menus
netLibrary	netLibrary	and, or, not	*	not available	" "	near	Advanced Search: Use field boxes Command Search: field code: term ti: utopia
Newsbank	Global Newsbank	and, or, not	*	?	adj	near#	Customized: Use pulldown menus
NISC	Latin American Studies	and, or, not	*	?	default	not available	field code=term au=sanders
NIST		space implies AND	words automatically trucated	not available	not available	not available	Choose specific search type (e.g. Ligand, Formula)
Oxford English Dictionary	OED Online	and, or, and not	*	?	default	near options: before, after, before or after	Use pulldown menus.
Ovid	Health & Psychosocial Instruments International Pharmaceutical Abstracts	and, or, not	$ or :	?	default	adj#	Use icons at top
Project MUSE	Project MUSE	and, or, not	*	not available	" "	not available	Use pulldown menus.
ProQuest	ProQuest Research Library	and, or, and not	*	?	default " " (if more than 2 words)	w/#	Advanced: field code(term) dtype(book review) Guided: Use pulldown menus
PubMed	PubMed (includes Medline)	AND, OR, NOT in caps	*	not available	" " (First try without " ")	not available	Preview / Index: Use All Fields pulldown menu to select a field
RDS (Responsive Database Services)	Contemporary Women's Issues	and, or, not	automatic	not available	default	near#	Click in the appropriate circle.
SciFinder Scholar	Chemical Abstracts	not available	automatic	not available	" "	not available	Use ANALYZE/REFINE to narrow current set to Index Term, Publication Type, or Publication Year field
SSP	American Poetry Database	Boolean Search: Use pulldown menu	*	not available	Proximity Search: Use "followed by" in pulldown menu	Proximity Search: Use pulldown menu	Bibliography Search: Use pulldown menu
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office	U.S. PTO Full Text and Image Database	and, or, andnot	$	not available	" "	not available	Use All Fields pulldown menus
U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System	U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)	Result must contain: All search terms (and) Any search terms (or)	$	not available	Result must contain: Exact search phrase	near#	term[field code] (Some fields require "term"[field code]) dog[ti]
WebSPIRS	Agricola	and, or, not	*	?	default	near#	term in field code freud in au Search Builder: Use scrollable menus
WebVoyage	MadCat	and, or, not	?	not available	Basic / Keywords: " " Guided Keyword: As a phrase	not available	Basic / Keywords: code term tkey gender Guided Keyword: Use pulldown menus
WilsonWeb	Education Full Text Readers' Guide Full Text	and, or, not	*	?	default	near#	term in field code 3m in co

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