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Tips and Cautions for Using SAVE

If you use the EXPAND command in preparing a SearchSave, any E or R numbers you SELECT must be converted to the search terms they represent for your strategy to EXECUTE properly. When selecting groups of E or R numbers, use the OR operator or the colon; do not use the hyphen or commas.

If you plan to EXECUTE your SearchSave in more than one database, make allowances for the differences in indexing and vocabulary that might exist. In general, follow these conventions:

1. Enter single-word Basic Index terms connected by proximity operators rather than entering phrase terms.
   
   
2. Use appropriate truncation to retrieve variant forms of search terms.
   
   
3. Consider British spelling, in addition to American, when searching international literature.
   
   
4. Study the prefix codes used in Additional Indexes to determine whether they have the same meaning and format.
   
   
5. If the different databases contain different fields, enter all possible fields in your strategy using OR logic, so that at least one of them will work in each file.
   
   
6. Be particularly careful when searching Author Names (AU=), observing variations in punctuation and using appropriate truncation.
   
   
7. If you are applying suffix or limit codes, be aware that they are applicable only in files containing those codes. The search defaults to the entire Basic Index for files that don't contain those codes.
   
   

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