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Searching the Public Site
Searching for publications with the search box of the public site and using suggestions, exact phrases, synonyms and the result filters.
The search box at the top of the public site searches publications. On narrow screens the box is inside the menu. The search finds only published records.
- Type the words you are looking for in the search box.
- Select one of the suggestions or press Enter.
- In the Filters section of the results page, choose the publication type, access status, category, language and year you want.
- Press Apply filters. The list reloads when you press this button.
Clicking a name in the author list narrows the results to that author's publications at once. To change the sort order, choose an order in the list above the results and press Sort.
Fields searched
The box searches the title, subtitle, authors, the advisors of theses, keywords, abstract and the ISBN, ISSN or DOI. Turkish characters and
upper and lower case do not matter. For example, typing istanbul also finds the word İSTANBUL. Accented and
special letters of other languages do not matter either. For example, typing lodz finds "Łódź" and typing
memmedov finds "Məmmədov". You can search titles and names written in the Arabic, Cyrillic or Greek alphabet by
typing in the same alphabet. Typing the beginning of each word is enough. For example, typing migra also finds
the word "migration".
If there is no exact match, the site shows similar titles and says so above the results. If there are no results at all, a spelling suggestion and popular topics appear. Spelling suggestions come from the words of the site's publications, and this list of words is renewed every hour.
Suggestions
When you type at least two letters, publication titles, keywords and author names are suggested below the box. You select a suggestion with the up and down arrows and open it with Enter or by clicking it. The Esc key closes the list. Pressing Enter without selecting a suggestion starts the search.
Exact phrase
If you put words in quotation marks, only publications that contain these words next to each other and in the same
order are found. For example, in the search "open access policy" the words in quotation marks must be written in
full. You can combine quotation marks with plain words, field selection and filters. A quotation mark that is not
closed is ignored.
Synonyms
The synonyms that the system administrator has defined are added to the search automatically. For example, makale, yazı and article (Turkish and English words for an article) can be in the same group. The results page says which synonyms were also searched. Publications that contain the word you searched for come first. Phrases in quotation marks and searches for authors and identifiers are not extended with synonyms.
To choose fields and add conditions with AND, OR and NOT, see Using Advanced Search.