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• Advanced Search When you visit the page, you will see a query page where you can find many search and restriction options, unlike the simple search.  Searchable keywords can be entered for each field.  In the Advanced Search options, “Keyword” and “AND Boolean Operator” are selected by default.  “More Options” You can change the search fields using the button that says "AND | OR | NOT" or use any Boolean (AND | OR | NOT) operator you want among the terms you want to query.

For example, we want to conduct a search that includes the terms "diseases" and "nurse". In the keyword query;

When you create your query sentence as (diseases OR nurse ), you will get 289 results. When you create your query as (diseases AND nurse), you will get 18 results.

It was observed that using the AND operator yielded fewer results and more meaningful results, while using the OR operator yielded more results. and it is seen that the meaning is getting further and further away. 

• The Advanced Search options include pop-up windows that help you restrict your search terms by title, author, etc. You can limit the search fields as you wish. You can also do this by typing the query directly into the query line on the Simple Query screen.

Örn:

• When searching for "Words with exact phrases", they should be enclosed in quotation marks.

Örn: “internal medicine”

• You can scan for words you don't know the spelling of, but with the * character.

Örn: * slah (when you search using the * character, the system returns "islah" and "işlah" as results).