How can I perform a boolean search?
By default, the abstract service “OR’s” words together. Therefore, a search on two authors returns papers written by either author1 OR author 2. The list is ranked by score so that papers written by both authors are listed at the top since they have a score of 1. If you would like to see only papers written by both authors (or which contain all words which you have entered in any other field), you need to change the combination method to “AND” above the text entry field. In addition, there are now two additional options for search logic: SIMPLE LOGIC QUERIES — The simple logic recognizes ‘+’ and ‘-‘ before the words. To require a word to be found in a search, it needs a ‘+’ in front of it. A ‘-‘ before a word indicates that only references that do NOT contain that word should be returned. AND , OR, NOT are stopwords and will be ignored in the simple logic. Note that if you want to exclude a word, it is best if it is not the first or only word listed in the search. This requires every
