Structured Advanced Search (Option 1)

The Advanced Search page provides a structured way for you to perform a more complex search. The following procedure assumes you have clicked in the navigation menu bar and selected Advanced.

In the Option 1 area, click in the first text box and enter a keyword. The keyword can be a subject term, last name, date, or phrase. If you are unsure of the spelling, you may enter a partial word or name. You may also use wildcards.

IEEE Xplore searches for items regardless of capitalization. See Entering Search Keywords for additional rules governing entry of search keywords.

Limit your search by selecting a choice in the field list next to the text box.

IEEE Xplore looks for the search string in all fields unless you select a choice from this list. All fields searches metadata only which includes document title, publication title, author, abstract text and index terms. If you want to search full text, select Full Text & All Fields.

To include additional words or phrases in the search query, enter search text and select field codes for the other search query boxes as necessary. Define the relationship between the query boxes by selecting search operators from the pull-down menus between the text boxes. For example:

Note: When a phrase is entered into advanced search option 1, it will search the exact phrase only - similar to how other engines handle phrases surrounded with quotations. It will not search each individual term.

The search operators available in the pull-down menus are:

AND: Searches for records that meet the two conditions it joins.

OR: Searches for records that meet either or both of the two conditions it joins.

NOT: Searches for records that do not meet the specified condition.

Limit your search results by adjusting the search options. You can:

Click . IEEE Xplore looks through the citation records and presents a list of results matching your query. The Subscriber icon indicates articles where you have access to full text.

Note: If you selected options in Other Resources (such as Books), IEEE Xplore also searches those resource titles for matching results.

If more titles containing the keyword exist than appear on the first page, click the result-range links, such as , to view more pages of titles.