For best results choose your keywords wisely. Try to make search terms as specific as possible. Keywords are not case-sensitive; "america" and "America" will find the same results.
| Tip: | a search for "biodiversity" and "America"
will only find resources where those words are specifically mentioned. |
BiologyBrowser returns pages that include all search terms (no need to include "and" between terms).
However, certain common connective words, such as "in", "of", "to", "for", "where" etc., are ignored by our search engine.
| Tip: | if a common word is essential to your search, try putting a "+" sign before it |
There are many ways to enhance your search on BiologyBrowser.
To increase the number of results, try truncating some/all of your search-terms (using the asterisk * character).
| Tip: | to find results including entomology, entomological, society, societies etc. |
To restrict your search to more relevant results, try one of the following :
Add a plus/minus sign (+ , - ) in front of your keyword to include/exclude the occurrence of that term,
(this will retrieve results containing the terms “biodiversity” and “america” and where “usa” is also mentioned)
Search for an exact term(s) match (using quote marks “ ”) to retrieve a precise result,
Restrict your search to a single domain (web) site,
( this will find all BiologyBrowser links to webpages on the Natural History Museum, London web site)
In addition to the above methods of refining your search, BiologyBrowser offers
a “power” search function.
This enables you to choose from additional options:
entire collection
this category only
within results
(This option is available from any Browse Category or Search Results page)
One further feature of BiologyBrowser allows you to search for non-alpha characters (using the underscore "_" character).
retrieves the website 'Actionbioscience.org' .
For more help with your searching, Contact biologybrowser@thomsonreuters.com.