Nursing: Cheat Sheet

Summon

Discovery

Service

ISU

Catalog

EBSCO

JSTOR

Project Muse

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AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

All of these

AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

(case sensitive)

OR

Any of these

OR

OR

OR

OR

OR

NOT

AND NOT

AND NOT

NOT

NOT

NOT

Stemming

# (word stems)

~ (various spellings)

Truncation

(any #)

*

[*x] or $x

*

*

*

& (plurals only)

*

Wildcard

(one char)

?
(1 char)

?
(1 char)

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

?
(1 char)

?

phrase

"..."

"..."

"..."
W1

"..."

"..."

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

"..."~x

near, any order

none

limit to full text?

yes

all fulltext

(print & elec)

yes

all fulltext

all fulltext

limit to peer-reviewed?

yes

no

yes

all peer-review

all peer-review

punctuation

ignore

ignore

ignore

ignore

ignore

Extras

Capitalized field codes

word^x

importance

Web of Knowledge

Scopus

PubMed
MEDLINE

ProQuest

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AND

AND

AND

AND

AND

All of these

AND

AND

AND

AND

OR

Any of these

OR

OR

 OR

OR

NOT

NOT

AND NOT

NOT 

AND NOT

Stemming

Lemmatization

Automatic  plurals and spelling variants

Automatic term mapping

Truncation

(any #)

*

& (plurals only)

*

*

*

[*x] or $x

Wildcard

(one char)

?

 automatic

?
(1 char)

phrase

"..."

{ }
PRE/0
exact phrase

"..."
"…"[field:~0] 

"..."

proximity

(x is any number)

NEAR/x

near,
any order

SAME

address only

W/x
within, any order

PRE/x
in order

"..."
any order in same field

"…"[field:~x] 
any order in same field

NEAR/x
N/x

near, any order

PRE/x
P/x

within, in order

limit to full text?

no

no

yes

yes

limit to peer-reviewed?

no

 no

yes

punctuation

ignore

Hyphens, dots, slash

ignore

Extras

Field codes

Field codes

 Field tags

CH3CH2OH

GeoScience World

Ovid

OT Seeker

AEA EconLit

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OR

AND

AND

AND

All of these

AND

AND

AND

AND

OR

Any of these

OR

OR

OR

OR

NOT

NOT

NOT

NOT

NOT

Stemming

yes

no

Truncation

(any #)

*

$

:

*

no

Wildcard

(one char)

#

$x (0-9 char)

? (0-1 char)

no

phrase

"..."

[default]

"..."

"..."

proximity

(x is any number)

ADJx

within, any order

.xy./FREQ=n

number occurrences

none

limit to full text?

no

yes

no

all full text

limit to peer-reviewed?

no

no

all peer-review

all

peer-review

punctuation

hyphen

ignore

Extras

capitalization