Searching Syntax Guide for Common Database Platforms

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • John W. Scott Health Sciences Library

• This a syntax and functional equivalency or translation chart for eight different platforms on which bibliographic databases are supplied by the University of Alberta Libraries. Functions included are: Boolean operators, natural language searching, relevancy ranking, subject headings, combining search sets, truncation, wildcards, exact phrase searching, adjacency searching, and field tag searching.

• Date created

  2015

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Syntax guide - Scopus platform
  • Syntax guide - EBSCO platform
  • Syntax guide - Proquest platform
  • Syntax guide - Web of Science platform
  • Syntax guide - Google Scholar
  • Syntax guide - Cochrane Library
  • Syntax guide - PubMed
  • Database Searching Aids
  • Syntax guide - OvidSP platform

• Type of Item

  Learning Object

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3154DV6G

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International