How to use GeoRef
(e.g. rowland, f) then click the DISPLAY button. On the results screen, check the boxes representing all variations of your author's name. Click the NEXT button in order to continue browsing through the index. Once you have selected all possibilities, click the SEARCH button on the left frame.
Type keywords into the search bos. Check the radio button to indicate all of the words. You may use Boolean operators AND, OR or NOT. Please see the examples on the next page.
To Search for Records with the Resulting Term(s)
1.Click on the checkbox in front of the term. If selecting more than one term choose the type of search to conduct (e.g. Use OR for synonyms to broaden a search)
2.Click on the SEARCH BAR in the left frame.
To search for
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Use
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Example (note caps)
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Results
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exact phrase
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carbon cycle
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carbon cycle (adjacent and in that order)
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variant endings of a word
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ophiol*
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ophiolite ophiolites ophiolithic etc.
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single-character variants
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wom?n
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women, woman
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all words
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AND
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rossby AND wave
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rossby and wave required in every record
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any word (synonyms)
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OR
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earthquake OR tremor
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either earthquake or tremor will be in every record
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one word but not another
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NOT
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chlorofluoro carbon NOT freon
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non-freon chlorofluoro carbon. BE CAREFUL! You will probably loose some relevant records.
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words near each other
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NEAR
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greenhouse NEAR gases
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greenhouse and gases within 10 words of each other
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Additional techniques and further explanations are available by clicking “help” at the top of the search screen.
* If you have not marked any records, CSA will print, email or save all the records currently being viewed.
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