The main search applies to the title, ISSN /e-ISSN, keywords and publisher fields. You can use special characters in your search entries. Dash operator – excludes a token. Query “acta -protozoologica” will find results with “acta” and not containing “protozoologica”.
Quotation marks wrap phrases and enforce token presence: “acta protozoologica” will find results containing a full phrase, will not find results with acta or protozoologica alone; “acta” protozoologica carpathia will find results containing acta, which may or may not also contain protozoologica or carpathia. Phrases can be excluded as well: acta -“acta protozoologica” will find results containing acta and not containing acta protozoologica.”
Journals that meet all diamond criteria can be displayed using the “fully diamond” filter. Additional filter categories include licence, language, and country, based on the corresponding metadata (see the metadata table for details). Multiple options can be selected for each of these categories simultaneously, showing journals that match at least one of the chosen criteria, e.g. if English and German are selected in “Languages”, journals that have English and journals that have German in the language metadata will be displayed. Some user roles also have additional filters described in the sections for the corresponding user groups.
Journals can also be sorted by:
- Main title – main title of the journal in ascending order (from A-Z), other titles are not taken into account
- Date – date of the last journal modification, journals recently changed will appear at the top
- Publisher – name of the publisher, in ascending order (from A-Z)
Relevance – how well the given search query matches the journal. E.g. when searching for: “Acta Herpetologica”, the journal Acta Herpetologica will not be the first result, but rather other journal titles starting with “Acta” will be on top of the list. However, when the sorting by relevance is chosen, Acta Herpetologica will appear first in the list.