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search for a specific journal name

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:20 pm
by dspady
How do I search in my database for articles from a specific journal. e.g. I want to find all the articles I have that were printed in Lancet. How do I do this as there is no search term for Journal.
I have tried Search Text words begin with Lancet
and Type is Journal Article

But that also brings up other articles published elsewhere that might have Lancet somewhere in their record. I want to find ONLY articles published in Lancet. I am sure there must be a simple way to do this, but I cannot find it in the manual, or here.

thanks

Don

Re: search for a specific journal name

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:41 pm
by Jon
dspady wrote:How do I do this as there is no search term for Journal
I'm not sure what you mean. You can explicitly search the journal field in Find dialog (Command-F) -- the popup menu at the far right, the default setting being All Fields, but you can select any specific field you want.

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: search for a specific journal name

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:17 am
by dspady
I know there is the default setting All Fields, but in the list of fields below that, there is no field called 'Journal'

Don

Re: search for a specific journal name

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:28 am
by Jon
There should be (unless you changed the names of the fields in preferences). Please contact me offlist with a screen snap of what the popup menu in the Find dialog is showing.

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: search for a specific journal name

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:05 am
by dspady
BINGO!
I created a form called "report" that I used for cataloging reports, and I changed the name of the "journal" field to "organization" and somehow the default reference type became report. I changed the default back to journal and now when I search, there is a field called "Journal". So all is well.

Many thanks

Don