General Search in SciSearch
Institution Searching

SciSearch at LANL: http://search.lanl.gov/

To search for an author's institution, select one of the field names on the Search page. Select Institution from the list of searchable fields.

The author's institutional affiliation or reprint address is indexed as it appears in the article.

Some journals give the address of the primary author only.

In these cases only one address will appear in the database.

If you search for Stanford, you'll miss articles by Stanford authors if their address doesn't appear in the article.

Use abbreviations when searching for institutions.

The real challenge in searching the institution field is to keep in mind that this field contains many abbreviations.

Refer to the list of standard ISI abbreviations.

• Select Tips/FAQs.

• Select Institution for more information about abbreviations used in the Institution field.

Use unique words (Stanford, Rutgers, etc.) or search your topic in different ways:

• UCSF <or> (univ <and> calif <and> san francisco).

Some common abbreviations are:

acad biol chem ctr dept exptl fed fnd genet inst

lab mat med molec nucl phys physiol res sch univ

More information

On the Search page, select Tips/FAQs.

Related Topics

• General search introduction
• Author searching
• Title/subject/abstract searching
• Boolean searching and truncation
• Journal searching
• Limiting by date and number of citations to retrieve
• Sorting results
• Displaying, marking, and printing citations
• Search history
• LinkSeeker and links to full text
• Table of contents

Michael Newman
Falconer Biology Library
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-5021
mnewman@stanford.edu

Last modified: April, 2003