Nursing and Allied Health: Cheat Sheet

Summon

Discovery

Service

ISU

Catalog Fusion

ISU

Classic Catalog

EBSCO

ProQuest

default

AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

All of these

AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

OR

Any of these

OR

OR

OR

OR

OR

NOT

AND NOT

NOT
 

AND NOT

NOT

AND NOT

Stemming

Truncation

(any #)

*

[*x] or $x

*

*

*

*

[*x] or $x

Wildcard

(one char)

?
(1 char)

?
(1 char)

?
(1 char)

? (1 char)
# (0-1 char)

?
(1 char)

phrase

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

proximity

(x is any number)

NEAR/x
N/x

near, any order

PRE/x
P/x

within, in order

Nx
near, any order

Wx
within, in order

NEAR/x
N/x

near, any order

PRE/x
P/x

within, in order

limit to full text?

yes

all fulltext

(print & elec)

all fulltext

(print & elec)

yes

yes

limit to peer-reviewed?

yes

no

no

yes

yes

punctuation

ignore

ignore

ignore

ignore

ignore

Extras

CH3CH2OH

AEA EconLit

JSTOR

LexisNexis Academic

Project Muse

default

AND

AND

AND

AND

All of these

AND

AND

AND

AND

(case sensitive)

OR

Any of these

OR

OR

OR

OR

NOT

NOT

NOT

AND NOT

NOT

Stemming

no

# (word stems)

~ (various spellings)

Truncation

(any #)

no

*

& (plurals only)

!

*

Wildcard

(one char)

no

?
(1 char)

*

?

phrase

"..."

"..."

[default]

"..."

proximity

(x is any number)

no

"..."~x

near, any order

W/x

within, any order

W/s
sentence
W/p
paragraph

PRE/x

within, in order

none

limit to full text?

none

all fulltext

all fulltext

all fulltext

limit to peer-reviewed?

yes

all peer-review

no

all peer-review

punctuation

yes

ignore

ignore

Extras

word^x

importance

PubMed
MEDLINE

GeoScience World

Ovid

Web of Knowledge

default

AND

OR

AND

AND

All of these

AND

AND

AND

AND

OR

Any of these

 OR

OR

OR

OR

NOT

NOT 

NOT

NOT

NOT

Stemming

Automatic term mapping

yes

Lemmatization

Truncation

(any #)

*

*

$

:

*

& (plurals only)

Wildcard

(one char)

 automatic

#

$x (0-9 char)

? (0-1 char)

?

phrase

“…”

"..."

[default]

"..."

proximity

(x is any number)

ADJn

within, any order

.xy./FREQ=n

number occurrences

NEAR/x

near, any order

SAME

address only

limit to full text?

yes

no

yes

no

limit to peer-reviewed?

 no

no

no

all peer-review

punctuation

hyphen

ignore

Extras

capitalization