Searching

1 -  Different levels and approaches: 
   1. easy 
       1.1 expert
   2. menu/windows driven
       2.1 command driven
   3. browsing term lists/indexes directly pointing to records
   4. parenthetical query expressions
   5. browsing record list
   6. smart/live groups
   7. other

Short Record List browsing is default window (see below), common to all databases: one record per line; can handle up to eight (8) columns and use any field to display (option for all authors or first only). Quickly move to record by directly entering a string belonging to first sort field key (no special window is displayed). Sort (A/D) on any displayed field by clicking the column field bar. Cannot use term lists here to point to records. Can show preview of one highlighted record 

2 - Term lists are useful for browsing and searching see:Term/Entry lists 11

3 - Thesaurus (structured dictionary with relationships among terms)

4 -  Can use and nest parentheses to create real query expressions

5 -  Natural language queries

6 -  Search strategy : can save and recall search expressions

7 -  Refine (search within search result)

8 -  Advanced search features
    1. best match, weighted terms, ranking
    2. fuzzy, sounds like
    3. hypertext-like: navigation
    4. tag clouds

9  -  Highlighting search terms in result (and jump to next occurrence of terms)

10  -  Scope of searching within a record 
    1. one or more distinct fields
    2. cluster of fields
    3. full text = any field (i.e. all the fields are indexed and searchable) 
    4. other

En:

1. yes, RT included;
2. no clusters of field, therefore, e.g.: 6 different title fields (i.e. : Title, Secondary, Tertiary, Short, Alternate, Translated) , 5 authors fields, 2-3 dates fields: each of them requires an individual query or "Any field" as the unique alternative;
3. any field, also via Quick search Window (one word only);
4. PDF: via the usual search menu, it can search within the full text of attached PDF files, but you will not see the specific occurrence you searched for: you will have to open the file with Adobe® and use its own search function

11 -  Diacritics make difference (unpleasant feature if it cannot be disactivated)

12 -  Priority within search operators and queries

13 -  Boolean operators
    1. AND
    2. OR
    3. NOT (unary)
    4. AND NOT (binary)
    5. XOR

14 -  Relational operators 
   contains  
   equal ("is") 
   not-equal <>  
   less than  <   
   less or equal  <=  
   greater than  >  
   greater or equal   >=  
   range

15 -  Can combine boolean, relational operators, parentheses, truncation etc.

16 -  Truncated search (wildcards are explicit/implicit) 
    (right , left , l/r)

17 -  Search for not/empty fields

18 -  Internal wildcards ("masking" e.g. ? *, where m*ss stands for miss mass mess mistress ...)

19 -  Z39.50 & Pubmed Searching

EndNoteWeb (web based):   yes

1. embedded proprietary software built upon the Yaz toolkit;
2. use same interface as normal searching function (with less options but it can also search in command line mode: \\[search-term]&/attribute type/attribute value ...);
3. cannot search different databases simultaneously, but can launch more than one parallel search session; 
4. automatically save result in a group or db (depending on user's settings) without asking for conversion;
5. can save search expressions; 
6. modify or add new hosts and configure them; 
7. configure conversion filters; host configuration and connection properties are stored each in individual files so that many connections cannot share the same conversion filter (e.g. MARC21) but copies or adaptations of it; 
8. can specify text characters set (ANSEL, Latin-1, Unicode UTF-8, Unicode UTF-16 ... etc.) and > 24 record format syntaxes
9. Follow | Windows | Show Connection Status, to see a report of the search and the actual downloaded bib data that can also be copied elsewhere
10. As for conversion it makes use of the same tools available in normal Import, q.v.

20 - Number of Z39.50 targets/connections