... when using the STN on the Web access mode:
FIL (FILE) -- to enter a database in order to begin a search
examples --
fil reg
fil ca
S (SEARCH) -- to perform a search within a database
examples --
s peptide? (searches in the basic index -- looks for words within the title, abstract, and indexing fields, and looks for Registry Numbers)
s barton j?/au (searches for an author or inventor)
s review?/ab (searches for a word within the abstract)
s patent/dt (searches for a document type)
s methane/it (searches for an indexing term or subject heading)
s 0001-4842/isn or /so (searches for articles published in a specific journal through specifying that journal's ISSN)
s english/la (searches for publications in a specific language)
s 1999-2005/py (searches for items published in a particular year or range of years)
s dna/ti (searches for words appearing within the title)
E (EXPAND) -- to check a term or name alphabetically within a search field(s) to see if there are different variants of the name, different spellings of the term, etc.
example --
e barton j/au (particularly useful when looking for publications by a specific author; authors may have used different variations of their name for different articles, etc. that they have published)
D (DISPLAY) -- to display search results
example --
d l1 cbib abs re 1-10 14 22 (display results 1-10, 14, and 22 of answer set L1 showing the bibliographic data in compressed format, the abstracts, and the cited references for each publication)
LOG (LOGOFF) -- to end the searching session
examples --
log y (end the session in one step--y stands for yes)
log h (temporarily end the online session and hold your entire session--at the point you stopped--for 60 minutes; h stands for hold)
