How to Use the Search Screen

From the JAIRO search screen, academic contents accumulated in Japanese institutional repositories can be searched for.

In "Simple Search", you can search the entire contents information using keywords. 　→　How to Use Simple Search

In "Advanced Search", you can search for contents by setting detailed search conditions.　→　How to Use Advanced Search

How to Use Simple Search

On the Simple Search screen, you can search the entire contents information by specifying keywords.

Keyword entry box
Enter a keyword with which you want to search for contents in the keyword entry box and click the search button to search for registered entire contents information.
For a detailed keyword entry method, see "About Search Keywords".

How to specify the number of contents to be displayed
You can select the number of contents displayed in a list as search results from "Results per page: 10", "Results per page: 20", "Results per page: 50", "Results per page: 100", and "Results per page: 200".

How to specify the order of contents to be displayed
You can sort and display search results in a list on conditions that you specify.
"Sort by: Year (Descending)" ….. Search results are sorted in the descending order of publication years.
"Sort by: Year (Ascending)" ….. Search results are sorted in the ascending order of publication years.
"Sort by: Organizations (Ascending)" ….. Search results are sorted in the ascending order of kana characters of organization names.
"Sort by: Organizations (Descending)" ….. Search results are sorted in the descending order of kana characters of organization names.

How to specify contents with full-text
You can also search for only contents with link information to full-text.
"All" ….. All pieces of contents information are searched for.
"Include Full-text" ….. Only contents with link information to full-text are searched for.

[Hint] When you want to search for contents by specifying content types
By checking the types of contents that you want to search for, you can narrow down the scope of contents to be searched.
"Check All" ….. All content types are checked.
"Check Clear" ….. All checked content types are unchecked.

The number of registered contents is displayed according to their types (classified names).
When you click a content type, you can search for only the contents classified into the type.

Example (Figure above): When you want to search for "Thesis or Dissertation", "Departmental Bulletin Paper", and "Presentation".

[Hint] When you want to search for contents by specifying organization names
By checking organization names with which you want to search for contents, you can narrow down the scope of contents to be searched for.
"Check All" ….. All organizations are checked.
"Check Clear" ….. All checked organizations are unchecked.

The number of contents registered under organization names is displayed.
When you click an organization name, you can search for only the contents of the organization that you select.

Example (Figure above): When you want to search for the contents of "Akita Universiy" , "Asahikawa Medical College" and "Chiba University"

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About Search Keywords

1.　Matching Conditions in a Search
Multi-byte letters (Japanese) are handled as a partial match.
Roman letters are handled word by word as a forward match.

2.　Logical Operation
AND operation: Keywords are separated with spaces (two-byte and one-byte spaces).
OR operation: Keywords are separated with " | " (pipe).
NOT operation: " ! " is described to the left of a keyword.

3.　Entry of a Phrase
A phrase (character string including spaces) is enclosed with one-byte [ “ ] (double quotation mark).
Example: "Integrated multimedia search system"

4.　About Distinction of Letters
Roman uppercase and lowercase letters are not distinguished.
Roman two-byte and one-byte letters are not distinguished.
Lowercase and uppercase letters of the Greek and Russian alphabets are not distinguished.
One-byte and two-byte katakana letters are not distinguished.
Two-byte and one-byte numerals (0 to 9) are not distinguished.
Dashes, hyphens, and minus signs are removed.

Example (Figure above): When you want to search for data of which its contents information includes "Informatics" and "Research paper".

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How to Use Advanced Search

You can search for contents by specifying the search fields.

Any	The entire contents information is searched in the same way as in "Simple Search".
Article Title	Contents can be searched for according to their titles, etc.
Author	Contents can be searched for according to their authors, publishers, etc.
Keyword	Contents can be searched for with keywords related to them.
Journal Title	Contents can be searched for with journal titles.
ISSN	Contents can be searched for with ISSN, bibliographic record IDs, etc.

Example (Figure above): You can select "Any", "Article Title", "Author", "Keyword", "Journal Title" and "ISSN" for the search fields.

Logical operators between the search fields
A logical operator between the search fields can be selected from "AND", "OR" and "NOT".

[Hint]
When more search fields are necessary, clicking [Add Search area] once will add a search field.

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About Contents of JAIRO

The screen of JAIRO is linked to the IRDB contents analysis pagehttp://irdb.nii.ac.jp/analysis/index_e.php.