These searches are used to identify information that might be found by a broader search, without overwhelming the user with all the details of those searches. The options are Partial Author, Partial Keyword, Journal Coverage, and Proceedings/Edited Book Coverage searches.
This option is used to identify alternative spellings of author names using the leading characters, to determine the number of entries for each year for an author, and to obtain a bibliography for an author. The output from this type of query is a list of matching author names with years and (in parentheses) the number of items for each year. (The names must match from the beginning, but if the specified name is not complete, all possible completions of the end will be matched. The author name is a link, and if selected it returns that author's full bibliography (for the name in that exact form). Each year is also a link, and if selected it returns that author's bibliography for the year with a count of citations.
Note that because CIS lists author names exactly as they appear in the original publication, the same author may appear in several different forms (with initials, full name, nicknames, etc.). This option is useful for identifying such alternative forms. For example, you may find "Jones, James" and "Jones, J. K." which are alternative forms for the same author, as well as "Jones, John" who is a different author. You might also find entries for "Jones, J." which could belong to either of those authors, or both. After viewing the alternative forms, you might be able to formulate a query or series of queries that will find all the desired forms.
This option is used to identify keyword phrases including a given string, appearing anywhere in the phrase. CIS keywords are not drawn from a standardized list. This option helps you to find a variety of keywords that might be relevant to your topic. Each keyword phrase is a link to articles indexed by that phrase. Note that this search does not find articles containing the same phrase in the title.
This search counts articles that were indexed from a journal in a given year. Any substring appearing within the journal title will be matched. Proceedings and edited books are not included in this search; see separate option below.
Among the possible uses of this feature are (1) to verify the correct form of a journal title and (2) to determine what years are covered by CIS for a given journal, and surmise whether the article was indexed completely or only selected articles were indexed. Each year is a link to the complete CIS contents for that journal in that year, which for a core journal is essentially the table of contents for that volume.
This search counts articles that were indexed from a proceedings or edited book volume in a given year. Any substring appearing within the volume title will be matched.
The title is a link to the entire collection of listings of chapters or articles under that title. Each year, for a proceedings series with multiple years under the same title, is a link to the complete CIS contents for that proceedings series in that year. In either case what will be returned is essentially the table of contents for the volume or collection of volumes, if it is fully indexed.