Search tips

Use these tips to get the best results from your search. We recommend that first time users of this website print these tips for use as a reference.

The Product Search allows you to search the information about all (about 24,000) Elsevier products that can be acquired.The All Elsevier Sites Search allows you to search the entire Corporate Website, excluding the Product information. In addition you will search through all Elsevier Marketing webpages and the online full texts of Elsevier Products.The News Search allows you to search through all News Items.
The Job Search allows you to search through all available jobs at Elsevier.

General search tips

To perform a search, enter your keyword(s) in the box provided and click on the Search button. Use multiple words when possible. The more information you enter, the more specific and accurate your search results will be.
You can make use of the Boolean operators OR, AND, ANDNOT between search terms:

AND - your search results will contain all of your search terms. If you enter two search terms without any operator, the system will consider this an AND relation.

For example: women AND health will return results that contain both the words women and health in the text.

OR - your search results will contain at least one of your search terms.

For example: algebra OR trigonometry will return results that either contain the word algebra or the word trigonometry or both in the text.

ANDNOT - your search results will contain your first search term but not the latter.

For example: forensic medicine ANDNOT legal medicine will return results that contain the word forensic medicine in the text but not the word legal medicine.

Special operators

You can include various search operators to retrieve results that include specific characters, word roots, suffixes etc.

Wildcarding * - The asterisk is a wildcard that can replace zero, one or more letters. Please enter a minimum of three letters of the relevant search term in front of the wildcard; you cannot use this wildcard in the middle of a search term.

For example: bio* will return results that contain words like biology, biochemist, biomedical...

Parentheses ( ) - Use parentheses to group complex Boolean phrases with more than two search terms.

For example: (absorption or desorption) and gases will return results with either the words absorption of gases or the words desorption of gases or both combinations in the text.

Quotes " and “ - Use these double quotes around the search terms when you want to search literally on a specific phrase and/or special characters.

For example: "addictive behaviors" returns results that contain this specific phrase in the text.

All Elsevier Sites Search

The "All Elsevier Sites Search" allows you to search the entire Corporate Website, excluding the Product information. The results will include information about jobs, news & events, the "About Elsevier" pages etc.
On top of this, it also includes a search through all Elsevier marketing webpages and all online available full texts from Elsevier products.

At every page you can choose to use this search option.
The full text search results are powered by the scienctific search engine Scirus and will be presented in a separate browser window. These results will only be selected from all online available full texts from Elsevier products (mainly journal articles).

Advanced Product Search

At the advanced product search page you are offered the opportunity to perform a more detailed search through the information about approx. 24,000 Elsevier products. You can decide to use one or more of the options offered at this page.

The search box keyword allows you to enter one or more keywords or search terms, based on the above mentioned General search tips
The search box Publication title allows you to search through the official publication titles only, based on the above mentioned General Search Tips.

For example: gene returns results from products that have literally this word in the official title or subtitle.

The search box Author (books only) or Editor allows you to search through all the authors and editors only of all the book publications and the editors of journals. Note that you only search through the authors of books and not for authors of specific journal articles.

For example: rassi returns results about the books Z. El Rassi has been author of, but it will not return the results about the journal articles he has been author of. These journal articles can be found with the full text search powered by Scirus

The search box ISBN/ISSN allows you to search for a publication with a specific ISBN or ISSN.

For example: 0444826165 returns the book Corrosion Atlas from During.

The boxes under the heading 'Publication Date' (for books only) allows you to limit your search to book products specific period. You can click on the preferred year(s). As only books have specific publication dates, this setting only refers to books.

For example: 'After 1998' returns results about books published since 1998 up until this moment.

Another Example: 'After December 1999' and 'Before January 2001' returns results about books published in 2000.

In the second half of the page you can limit your search to one or more specific subject or scientific areas and to one or more specific publication or product types.

In certain cases, a publication could be cross-disciplinary and therefore logically classified in more than one area. If you are unsure of how the publication you are looking for has been classified we suggest you select all relevant subject areas to ensure the best and most complete results. You can do so by making use of the standard windows combination of holding down the Control-key and clicking through the relevant subject areas.
To get the best results from your query we recommend that you refine your search as specifically as possible.

For example: Products about Plant Sciences can be classified under Agricultural and Biological Sciences and/or Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, therefore all of these subject areas should be selected for the most complete results.

The button ‘Clear Fields’ allows you to completely start again defining your search query.

Product Search Results

The Product Search Results page presents you with all the available Elsevier products that match your search query.

Under 'You searched for..' your search query is displayed, which allows you to check the search query you entered. In case the search query needs to be amended, you can adapt the search query by clicking at the button ‘Search again’ at the right hand side of the screen which brings you to the Advanced Product Search page.

The results page of the search for products only displays for each hit in the result listing:

The title of the product
The type of publication
A link to the related page 'Highlight Search Terms', showing the reasons why you have found this product
For books it displays also if available, the publication date and the Author name (s)
The number it has in the listing

This result page also offers the opportunity to see (show) only part of the results based on the publication or product type. By default all products are listed.

And you can also determine the sorting order of the result listing.

The products are displayed (by default) in order of relevance to the search query, the product with the highest relevance appearing at the top of the list.
The Title option displays the results alphabetically according to the product titles.
The Publication Date (books only) option sorts the products according to the publication date, the most recent books on top. As publication dates are only relevant for books, this option sorts only the books in the result listing and displays all other publications beneath.
The Author (books only), editor option displays the products alphabetically sorted according to author name (books only) or editor name (journals).

When the result listing becomes too long the row at the bottom, with the words previous 25 and next 25, allows you to navigate to the next or previous page or series of the results, ordered and filtered in the same way as in the page itself.
This mechanism also allows you to jump more than one page or series at a time through the result listing by clicking one of the page numbers indicated.

Job Search

You can search for jobs at Elsevier by entering a search term in the search box. You will search through all available information about the available jobs.

You can also choose a specific location of interest from the list of locations where Elsevier has offices around the world.

For example: entering the word “author” returns job descriptions that contain the word author.

The button ‘Clear Fields’ allows you to completely start again, from scratch, re-defining your search query.

The Job Search Results page presents all job vacancies at Elsevier that match the search query you entered.

For each job vacancy the following pieces of information are displayed in the result listing:

Job title: this is the official title of the job vacancy
Date Posted: this is the official date that the job vacancy was posted on this website
Location: this is the location where the job vacancy is available

The job vacancies listing can be limited to one specific location, by choosing the preferred location from the listing under 'Only show jobs at (location)'.

The sorting order for job vacancies is, by default, numerically based according to "Date Posted". If you prefer, you can sort the listing alphabetically, according to the official job titles.

Results are presented in clusters of 20. If more than 20 jobs match the search query, the result list is divided into multiple pages of maximum 20 job vacancies. More navigation through the jobs search results is offered by the clickable words previous 20 and next 20 at the bottom of the page.
This mechanism at the bottom of the page also allows you to jump immediately more than one page or series at a time through the result listing by clicking one of the page numbers indicated.

Job Search Results

The Job Search Results page presents all job vacancies at Elsevier that match the search query you entered.

For each job vacancy the following pieces of information are displayed in the result listing:

Job title: this is the official title of the job vacancy
Date Posted: this is the official date that the job vacancy was posted on this website
Location: this is the location where the job vacancy is available

The job vacancies listing can be limited to one specific location, by choosing the preferred location from the listing under 'Only show jobs at (location)'.

The sorting order for job vacancies is, by default, numerically based according to "Date Posted". If you prefer, you can sort the listing alphabetically, according to the official job titles.

News Search

You can search from this page for news items and events about the company, about products, about events, etc.

In the search box Keywords you can enter one or more search terms with the help of the General search tips.

You can limit the news search to one ore more specific types of news items.

If you are unsure where the news item you are looking for has been classified, we suggest you select all relevant subject areas to ensure the best and most complete results. You can do so by making use of the standard windows combination of the Control-key and a click at the relevant subject areas.

To get the best results from your query we recommend that you refine your search as specifically as possible.

For example: News items about Plant Sciences can be classified under Agricultural and Biological Sciences and/or Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, therefore all of these subject areas should be selected for the most complete results.

The boxes under the heading 'Searching for news and events from a specific period' allow you to limit your search to news items published in a specific period. You can click on the preferred month(s) and year(s).

Dispatch Dates Search

On this page, you can search for Dispatch Dates of journals.

In the search box you can enter one or more search terms with the help of the General search tips.

You can search with (parts of) the journal title or subtitle and with the ISSN of the relevant journal(s).

For example: 'artificial' offers you the list of journals with 'artificial' in the (sub)title and the relevant Dispatch Dates.

The result listing also allows you to adapt the sorting order of the journals. By default, the journals are listed alphabetically based on their title; you can also sort the listing numerically based on the ISSN, lowest number on top.

Search Tips