The Essentials (Start here)

Smart ranking

The search automatically prioritises the most relevant results. Exact journal titles always appear at the top.

Simple search

Enter any term to search across journal titles, subjects, imprints, and ISSN fields. The search automatically finds partial matches.
Note: Imprints are specific brand or trade names used by publishers to identify specific groups of journals.

Advanced Journal Title Searching (Search like a Pro)

Exact phrases

Use quotes around phrases for exact matches. The quotation marks help to hold more than one term together.
Example: Searching for "Cell biology" finds only journals with this exact term.

Wildcard ?

If you are unsure of the spelling, use a ? as a wildcard to replace one character within a term to find results with different spellings. Like simple search, this searches across journal titles, subjects, imprints, and ISSN fields.
Example: Searching for organi?ation finds journals with both spellings: organisation, organization.

Truncation *

Use * to find all term variations. Like simple search, this searches across journal titles, subjects, imprints, and ISSN fields.
Example: Searching for bio* finds biology, biotech, bioscience.

Boolean

If you would like to both widen or narrow your search, use AND to match terms.
Example: cell AND biology results match both terms.

Use OR for synonyms or related concepts.
Example: cell OR biology results match either of these terms, helping to expand the results found.

Use NOT to exclude terms from your search and remove unwanted results.
Example: cell NOT biology results match cell-related journals but exclude biology.

Other ways to browse

By default, exact phrases and Boolean searches use the Journal Title field (wildcard and truncation searches already cover all fields, as noted above). To search inside other fields with these techniques, use these prefixes. The quotation marks help to hold more than one term together.

Type imprint: followed by the name.
Example: imprint:"imprint or publisher name"

Type subjects: followed by the topics.
Example: subjects:"Life Sciences"

Combine logic

Combine different advanced search techniques to create powerful queries. Use parentheses () to group logic within a specific field.
Example: subjects:(bio* AND life) AND NOT cell finds biology and life science journals, excluding any terms with cell.