Searching the bibliographic listings: Help

This facility allows you to search the listings of aerospace medical publications. You can search the listings using any or all of the parameters and options provided on the search page. To make a search enter the parameters as required and click on the 'Submit Query' button at the bottom of the form.

Hits are limited to 100 per search. If your search results to more than 100 hits the most recent 100 are displayed. Results are displayed in reverse chronlogical order with the most recent publications being displayed first. Once I've worked-out how to code for the return successive pages of, say, 20 hits (a la Google) I will remove this limitation.

You can search using author either alone or in combination with searches using keywords. You can search using keywords either alone or in combination with searches using author. You can also refine these searches further by selecting a range of years of publication.

The upper, or blue, section of the form is titled 'Search for author' and allows you to search for publications by author by providing you with four search options.

• The first author text entry box allows you to enter the text used in your author search. This text can be either the start of the first author's name (Where 'smit' will return papers with first author 'Smith' or 'Smithson' etc) or contained anywhere in any author's name (Where 'smit' will return papers with 'Smith' or 'Smithson' as any author as well as papers with 'Goldsmith' etc as any author).
• The next choice is a pair of radio buttons where you can choose whether to apply the text in the first field to the 'Start of first author's name only' or 'Anywhere in any author's name' as described above.
• The next choice is a pair of radio buttons that provide you with a choice between 'and' or 'or'. This choice will only operate if additional text is entered into the second text entry box immediately below. Selecting 'and' will limit your search to papers with authors who match both text strings that you enter. Selecting 'or' will return papers with authors who match either of the two text strings that you enter. An 'or' selection will return more hits than an 'and' selection ... "Or means more". All and / or radio buttons are set with 'and' as their default.
• The next choice is a second author text entry box. This text will be used anywhere in any author's name. To search using this text box you must also have text entered in the first author text entry box.

The middle, or green, section of the form is titled 'Search using keywords' and allows you to search for publications by keywords by providing you with six search options.

• The first choice is a pair of radio buttons that provide you with a choice between 'and' or 'or'. This choice will only operate if additional text is entered into the first keyword text entry box immediately below. Remember ... "Or means more". Your choice here will only have an effect if you are making text entries into both uthor and keyword sections.
• The first keyword text entry box allows you to enter the text used in your keyword search. This text will produce hits against text contained anywhere in either the title, abstract, or keyword fields of the papers.
• The next choice is a pair of radio buttons that provide you with a choice between 'and' or 'or'. This choice will only operate if additional text is entered into the second keyword text entry box immediately below.
• The second keyword text entry box allows you to enter additional text to be used in your keyword search. This text will also produce hits against text contained anywhere in either the title, abstract, or keyword fields of the papers. To search using this text box you must also have text entered in the first keyword text entry box.
• The next choice is another pair of radio buttons that provide you with a choice between 'and' or 'or'. This choice will only operate if additional text is entered into the third keyword text entry box immediately below.
• The third keyword text entry box allows you to enter additional text to be used in your keyword search. This text will also produce hits against text contained anywhere in either the title, abstract, or keyword fields of the papers.To search using this text box you must also have text entered in the first and second keyword text entry boxes.

The lower, or pink, section of the form is titled 'Limit the search' and allows you refine your search by making any of three selections.These selections allow you to limit your search to a range of publication years, to a subset of journals, or to not printout article abstracts and links to PDF files.

The first choice in this section allows you to "Select range of years". This lets you restrict the hits to those articles published during the year range that you specify.

• The choice offers a pair of pull-down menus that provides you with a selection of years, from 1930 to the present year. The year selected in the first pulldown menu will be the earliest year of publication applied to your search. The year selected in the second pulldown menu will be the latest year of publication applied to your search. The default is to not limit the years of publication.

The second choice in this section allows you to "Limit to AsMA journals". This lets you either restrict the hits to articles published by the Aerospace Medicine Association* (AsMA) or to the whole database. The majority of the articles in the database are from AsMA journals.

• The choice is between a pair of radio buttons that provide you with the options of 'Search AsMA journals only' and 'Search all journals and books'. The default is 'Search AsMA journals only'.

The third choice in this section allows you to "Show abstracts and articles". If the selection is made to 'how any abstracts and links to articles' the articles that are found by your search will include, where available, their abstracts and, also where available, a link so you can download a PDF of the article. At present many of the more recent article have abstracts and very few PDFs are loaded into the system. (If you want to see this work search for "vasovagal" as a keyword. The first paper returned includes both an abstract and a link so the PDF of the article can be downloaded)

• The choice is between a pair of radio buttons that provide you with the options of 'Show any abstracts and links to articles' and 'Hide any abstracts and links to articles'. The default is 'Show any abstracts and links to articles'.

* The Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) and her predecessor organisations have published the following journals: Journal of Aviation Medicine (1930 - 1959); Aerospace Medicine (1960 - 1974); Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine (1975 - present).

Warning:

This facility contains over ten thousand listings so if your search parameters are too general the results page could take a long time to load