Contemporary Women's Issues Search interface combines the flexibility of Boolean search operators with the convenience of automatic stemming. CWI's search interface offers the ability to apply complex search logic to a query.
| Keywords
& Word Phrases Words in Title Book Author Article Author Date Subject Area Geo Region Source Article Type Publication Type |
AND OR NOT Parentheses Proximity Operators Near |
Stopwords |
Keywords & Word Phrases
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Enter words and word phrases in the Full text field. Words
entered into the Full text field will search the full text, title, enhanced title
and select descriptor fields. For Example:
entering the phrase eating disorders in
the Full text field will retrieve articles that include this term.
To enter multiple words and/or phrases connect them with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT).
Words in Title
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To search the Search Title & Enhanced Title, click the radio button
next to Search Title & Enhanced Title. This search functions
similarly to the Full text field but restricts the search to only the words that appear in
the original title or the enhanced title of each article. Searching for Article
Author or Book Author works in the same manner.
Book Author or Article Author
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To search by either Book Author or Aricle Author, click
the appropriate radio button and type the author's name it the Full Text box. Author
name may be entered in a variety of ways:
--Last Name First Name
--Last Name
--First Name
Date
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The Contemporary Women's Issues search interface allows you to limit the extent of your
search by Date Range. By default, no date range filtering is applied. You
may optionally set the earliest and/or latest publication date for articles to be returned
by entering a date in the from and/or to text boxes.
Subject Area back to top
Contemporary Women's Issues provides over 150 different Subject Areas to
chose from. All articles in the CWI database are indexed by Subject Area.
This Subject Area thesaurus has been developed to accurately categorize the subject areas
and concepts represented in the database. As new sources and subject areas are added to
the database, this thesaurus will expand. You may select multiple subject area terms
by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking simultaneously on each term you would like to
include in your search.
For example: You are looking for information on Affirmative action or African American women- insert the subject terms Affirmative action and African American. Leaving the radio button on "Or" will result in a broader search, using "And" will narrow the search.
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Use Geo Regions to restrict a search to the country or region of
interest. Click on the pop-up box and select the appropriate country or
region.
Country vs. Region
Select a country when you want information about a specific country. Select a
region to search all countries within a region.
Article Type
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All articles in the CWI database are indexed by the Article Type.
Searching by Article Type allows searchers to limit the type of articles they would like
to retrieve. For example, this can be helpful when searching for a profile of a
person or for an editorial opinion.
To limit your search to one of the article types, simply select it in the "Type of
Article" list box. If you want to search across all article types, select "Any
article type" which is the default.
Available Article Types
Book Reviews
Because Book Reviews may "clutter" a search, the option to
exclude book reviews has been provided. To exclude this Article Type, mark the "Exclude
Book Reviews" checkbox.
Publication Type
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All articles in the CWI database are indexed by the Publication Type.
Limiting by Publication Type allows searchers to find articles in a particular type of
publication. This can be useful, for example, when searching for fact sheets,
since this sort of publication type uniquely includes only facts.
To limit your search to one of the publication types, simply select it in the "Publication
Type" list box. If you want to search across all article types, select "Any
publication type" which is the default.
Available Publication Types
Source List back to top
All articles in the CWI database are cross referenced by source. To limit your search to a
specific periodical source or report, simply click on "find source" and check
off the sources you wish to search.. To search on these sources, click the "add
selected sources" button at the top or bottom of the screen. You may further
narrow this list by clicking on the sources carried over to the "From a specific
source" box at the bottom of the search screen. To choose one source, highlight
the source by clicking. To choose all sources, click on the first source, then go to
the bottom of the list and simultaneously press the shift key and click on the last source
in the list. You may select multiple subject area terms by pressing the Ctrl key and
clicking simultaneously on each source you would like to include in your search. If
you want to search across all journals, use the "Any Source"
default.
Search by Report Title
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In order to retrieve a full report, please follow the instructions above, choosing the
report name from the displayed list. All reports with more than one section are
listed in the source list.
Using Multi-Select Text-Boxes back to top
The controlled vocabulary indexes Subject Area and
Geo Region are available through Multi-Select text-boxes. The
text-boxes allow you to select one or more entries in the box at the same time. Please
note that the method for doing the selection in the list is dependent upon the computer
you are using to access the database.
For example: when using a PC usually holding down the Ctrl or Shift keys on your keyboard while clicking in the text-box with your mouse allows multiple selections. When using an Apple computer, usually holding the Apple key while clicking your mouse allows multiple selections.
Next to the Multi-Select boxes are radio buttons allowing you to choose And or Or. This allows you to specify how the multi-selected terms are related to one another in a document. If you choose And, each matching document must contain all of the selected terms. If you choose Or, each matching document must contain at least 1 of the selected terms.
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