HELP INDEX

• Abstract Text
• Anywhere
• Article Text
• Article Title
• Author
• Mathematical Sciences Classification
• Mathematical Sciences Classification Year
• Keyword
• References 
• Other useful information
  • Case sensitivity
  • Validity checking
  • Wildcarding

The electronic journals search provides eight searchable fields, which can be joined with Boolean search operators within and between fields to create many different combinations of search criteria. The searchable fields are described below. None of the fields are case sensitive. The wildcard symbol (*) can be used to broaden all searches. Examples of searches in various fields are provided below. 

Abstract Text

A search can be limited to an article's abstract by entering keywords or phrases in the Abstract Text field. The wildcard (*) can be used in this field.

Examples: 

• Segal conjecture
• algebr*  

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Anywhere

The Anywhere search option allows users to enter a word or phrase and search the entire Journal article, including the following fields: author, article title, MSC, article text, abstract text, references and keywords. The wildcard (*) can be used to broaden the search.

  Examples:  

• cyclotomic fields
• contemp* math
• Roseman, joseph j

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Article Text

The entire Article Text field can be searched by entering keywords or phrases. References are not included as part of the Article Text field. The wildcard (*) can be used in this field.

Examples: 

• "vector bundles"
• algebr*
    

It is recommended that searches in Article Text are narrowed by using Boolean search operators to combine search terms. Also, minimizing the number of journals searched at one time, or searching the Abstract Text first will narrow the scope of the search.

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Article Title

The Article Title field contains the original title and/or an English translation of the original title. The wildcard (*) can be used to search this field.

Examples: 

• Spectra of hyperbolic*
• Kirkman triple systems
• multidimensional distribution of the subset sum*  

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Author

All names of authors listed for journal articles and reviews are searchable. Name searches should be structured as follows: last name, first name, middle name(s) or initial(s). Commas must be used to separate last and first names. 

The best format for searching author names is: lastname, first initial*.

Examples: 

• Erdos, P* 
• Knuth, Donald E.
• Kap*sky, I* 
• Isaacs, I. M. 
• Smith

The wildcard (*) can be used anywhere within the name string to broaden the search. 

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Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)

This field contains the Mathematics Subject Classification assigned to an item by the article author or editor. The Mathematics Subject Classification Code consists of five characters, such as 62N10 signifying major and minor divisions of the subject classification system used by Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP).

Classifications must be entered as two, three, or five character codes when searching. Using the classification text (such as Hilbert subspaces) instead of 46C07 will return a " No items matched your query. " message.

Examples: 

• 62
• 62N10 
• 62*10

You can browse, search or print the entire MSC starting from http://www.ams.org/msc/. A PDF version of the MSC is also available at http://www.ams.org/msc/classification.pdf .

MSC Year

The MSC has been revised a number of times since 1940. Details of the changes of the MSC can be found on: http://www.ams.org/msc/msc-changes.html . The MSC Year search field is used to specifically limit the scope of a search to the year an MSC version was used to classify a publication. Journal articles are assigned MSC classifications and MSC classification years. Older articles can be searched by primary or secondary classifications and can be further limited by the year the MSC used to classify the article was published. For instance, the Bulletin of the AMS is available online from 1891 to the present while most of the other journals available on the AMS website began online publishing in the mid to late 1990's. Therefore, searching for the earlier years of MSC classifications will retrieve issues from the Bulletin while searching the MSC 1991, 2000 will retrieve articles from the other online journals.

• MSC 1970
• MSC 1980
• MSC 1985
• MSC 1991
• MSC 2000

Examples:

• 11 (MSC Primary) and 2000 (MSC Year)
• 14E25 (MSC Secondary) and 1991 (MSC Year)
• 10 (MSC Primary) and 1985 (MSC Year)

Keyword

Keywords are assigned to each paper by the contributing author(s). Users should be aware that not all articles contain keywords.  The wildcard (*) can be used in this field.

Examples: 

• solenoid automorphism
• orientable double cover 

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References

Text in the references field can be searched by entering keywords or phrases into this field

Examples: 

• Sums of squares of matrices

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Case Sensitivity

Journal searches are not case sensitive; both uppercase and lowercase entries are treated equally.

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Validity Checking

Journal searches do not check search criteria for valid entries. However, error messages are displayed for non-searchable entries.

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Wildcarding

The Journal Search wildcard character is the asterisk (*). Wildcards can be used in all fields. Wildcards cqannot be used to begin any search. For example *algebra will ot work.

Examples: 

• Erdos, P*
• neural network*
• dynamic* systems  
• 11*24

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