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Searching Reviews.com
Searching enables you to sift through thousands of reviews in the Reviews.com
ten-year plus archive for specific terms, names, or concepts. Click on
an option below for detailed instructions:
Quick Search
The Quick Search box is visible at the top of every Reviews.com
screen.
- Type the term name or phrase you are looking for and click on the
Go button.
- You will be brought to the Search Results page. At the top
of the page, the number of total results is shown, with the matching
items listed below. Click on an item title to see that review.
- The Display drop-down list allows you to choose the number
of items shown per page.
- Clicking Next (or Previous, when available) brings you
to the next (or previous) page of matching items.
Simple Search
- From within Reviews.com click on the Search button in the
left-hand menu to bring up the Simple Search page.
- In the Query field, type the terms you wish to search for.
Click on the Search button to submit your query.
Note: Searches are literal- you must enter the whole term or
name. For example, if you enter the term "chips", reviews containing
the term "silicon chips" will be returned, but reviews with the word
"chipsets" will not.
- Choosing options from the Limit Results By area of the page
can filter your search results:
- In the Date field, show every matching result by selecting
All, or limit the results by clicking on From and
selecting a date range using the drop-down date list.
- Select the amount of each review to be displayed by selecting
or deselecting Partial Review. If Partial Review is selected,
the first few lines of the reviews that match your search will display
beneath the citation information. If Partial Review is deselected,
just the citation information will display.
- Choose from the Sort By drop-down list to set how the results
will be sorted.
- Choose from the Display and Order drop-down lists
to set the number of results and the order in which they are displayed.
- Click on the Search button to run your search.
Advanced Search Help
- Enter search terms in the Query field. If you would like to refine your search, try using some of the tips below. Otherwise, skip ahead to step 2:
- Use Booleans: Two search terms can be combined by one of the three Boolean Operators, and, or or not. These operators determine whether or not the terms appear in the document in respect to one another.
- and - Separate terms using and to search for items containing
both terms : computing and reviews.
- or - Separate terms using or to search for items containing at
least one of the terms : computing or reviews.
- not - Separate terms using not to find documents matching the search term(s) to the left of the not operator
that do not contain any terms to its right: computing reviews not horoscopes.
- Use Proximity: Specify the relative location of specific words (how close together they must be)
in a search string. All non-Boolean operators should be enclosed in brackets < > to operate properly.
- <near/n> - Use <near/n> to find documents within n (number of words) of each other.
For example, to find articles mentioning Computing Reviews and its relationship to the ACM,
you could enter: computing reviews <near/n> acm. Each result would have at least one instance of
Computing Reviews and ACM appearing within five words of each other.
- <sentence> and <paragraph> - Similar to <near/n>,
<sentence> and <paragraph> both look for two or more terms present
in the same sentence or paragraph, respectively, within a document. To search for articles that
mention Computing Reviews and the ACM in the same sentence, you could enter the following:
computing reviews <sentence> acm.
- Use <soundex>: Select items that sound like, or have similar
letter-patterns to, the term(s) you want to search.
NOTE: All results will start with the same letter as the word you have entered.
- For example: <soundex> collate (the results could include collateral, collapse, collide, and so on).
- Use Wildcards: Search for terms that begin with a common string of
characters but end differently using the question mark (?) and asterisk (*).
- ? - Search for words which vary by only one letter. For example, if
you were interested in finding articles containing the word "prioritize" and
remembered that there is also an English variant of the word, you could enter:
prioriti?e.
- * - To truncate a word, use the asterisk to stand in place of one or more
letters at the end of a word. For results that include the many variations of
"priority", you could enter: priori*.
- Use the Search Only checkboxes to limit your search to one or more publication types.
- Use the Classification drop-down lists to limit your search to CCS Categories and/or
General Terms
- Specify the date range you would like to search by clicking on a Date
radio button. All will search the entire archive, From and To
will limit the search according to the dates you choose from the drop-down lists.
- Choose how you would like to display results: click Partial Review if you'd
like a small portion of each result to display, use the Sort by drop-down to
set how results are sorted and choose how many results appear on each page and in what
order using the Display drop-downs.
Fielded Search Help
The Fielded Search tab allows too to search specific fields for
specific terms.
- Select fields to search by choosing from the first column of drop-down
lists.
- Enter search terms in the text fields.
- Configure the relation of one field to another by selecting operators
from the third column.
- The Limit Results By area allows you to specify where to look
for your search terms.
- Select an item type to only search those items. You can select
multiple item types.
- Choose CCS categories and sub categories in the Classification
field to limit your search to those areas.
- In the Date field choose All to search the whole archive,
or select From and then specify a date range from the drop-down
lists.
- Select Include Review Text to broaden your search.
- Select Show: Partial Review to display some of the review on
the list of search results.
- Choose from the Sort By and order drop-down lists to
specify the order your results will list in.
- Choose the number of results to view per screen by selecting from
the citations per page drop-down list.
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