Searching by Publication and Article Titles
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You can search for a full publication title in two ways:
Using the "Publication Title" field in Advanced Search
Just enter the full title (e.g. Journal of Dairy Science).
No need for quotation marks – the system treats it as an exact phrase automatically.
Using the field abbreviation DO: (Document Origin)
Use this in a standard search (outside Advanced Search).
You must enclose the title in quotation marks or parentheses to search as a phrase.
✅ do: "Journal of Dairy Science"
✅ do: (Journal of Dairy Science)
❌ do: Dairy Science → This will not return correct results.
🔔 Important: Only complete publication titles are indexed in this field. Partial titles or individual words (e.g.
do: "Dairy Science") will not return results for Journal of Dairy Science.
To search for individual article titles, you can use:
The "Title" field in Advanced Search
The field abbreviation Title: in a keyword search
Example: Title: (zoonotic outbreak)
This will return articles with both words in the title, such as: "A One Health Zoonotic Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Family Outbreak Investigation"
✅ Good to know:
All words in article titles are indexed separately. You can search for single words or phrases.
The "Title" field is a combined field that searches across three different metadata fields:
ET: Article Title
Original title of the article (in English or another language). If not in English, both the original and the English translation are included.
AT: Additional Title
Includes titles of special journal issues or series statements for books.
CT: Conference Title
Title of the conference (often in original language), along with date and location.
You can search each of these fields separately using their abbreviations:
et: "agrifood systems"
at: "agrifood systems"
ct: "agrifood systems"