Additional Indexes (continued)

On the Search History page of DialogWeb in the Database text box, we see the name of the database we have been using for Brian's latest searches: EMBASE, File 72. We can click any of the buttons to see different parts of the Dialog Bluesheet.

For example, by clicking Fields I would see the Basic and Additional indexes.

In the Additional Indexes, we can see Prefixes, two-digit codes followed by an equal sign. To narrow a search or to find one specific piece of information, we can type the command:

s xx=<TERM>

where XX is the prefix.

See Additional Indexes for File 72.

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The database Bluesheet indicates whether a field is phrase-indexed (e.g., the complete phrase is indexed following the prefix code) or word-indexed (e.g., individual words are indexed and searchable with logical and proximity operators), or both.

When word-indexed terms are searched using a prefix code, the terms must be enclosed in parentheses (e.g., CS=(hospital(w)laennec) for corporate source) for corporate source)

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