authors | journals | understanding the server's answers

1. To look for an author, type his last name, or better, the first letters of his last name ending your string with an * (wild card; e.g. <Ming*>); if you end up with too many different authors, add more letters, but look also at the list of authors.

!! For last names that contain spaces (fairly frequent in Belgium, both for French and Flemish last names; think at Dr Van der Auwera, for instance), you must surround the full name by brackets ("Van der Auwera") to force a search by that string (i.e. a string which includes two blank spaces in this particular instance).  Otherwise the server will pick up all files with a single "Van" plus all files with a single "der" plus all files with a single "Auwera", and all that case-insensitive... (and we have many names with "Van" or "van" in Belgium...). Alternatively, you may pick up only one part of the name, but it must be faily specific (usually the last part is the most specific; in the present case, "Auwera" will do the job...). You may also look at the list of authors and make a "Copy/Paste".
 
 
2. To look for a Journal, type part of its usual abbreviation, but type only the abbreviation of one word since otherwise, the whole string must be correct (see above for names that contain spaces). We use abbreviations without punctuation (i.e. Lab Invest, not Lab. Invest.) If you do not find a reference for a Journal you believe we must have been publishing in (e.g. <J Pharm Exp Ther>, you probably have mispelled it; go and see at the list of journals and make a "Copy/Paste".

 
3. The server will give you the references orgnized in the following manner:

 
1. first words of the title in bold, to enable you to spot rapidly wheher you got what you wanted;

 
2. full bibliographic references, with the following fields:
1. AU : authors
2. PY: year of publication
3. TI : title
4. SO: full bibliographical references
5. IF: impact factor (courtesy of the Institute for Scientific Information)
6. TP: type of publication (original paper, review, chapter of book, etc...)
7. MH: keywords
8. AB: abstract (URL where you may find it)
9. FT: full text if available (as a PDF file; copyright is held by the publisher)

   


in case of an unsucessful search, the server will generate one or several appropriate messages. Most unsuccessful searches are due to misspellings and other typing problems. Yet, we still do have a problem with the accentuated letters of the French or of other languages (though, fortunately, most of our papers are in English, but some of our authors have a last name that includes a letter which does not exist in plain English...). If you believe we have a problem with our data base or with our search programme, send us a mail describing the problem and giving us the error mesage generated by the server( do a "Copy/Paste" into your E-Mail window).

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