The Quick Search box in the left-hand bar on every page allows you to perform a keyword search across all the citations and full text for the articles and journals included in PRISMA:
To narrow the scope of your search you can join together your search terms using special sets of predefined words called operators. Boolean, proximity and truncation searching provides more information on how to use these operators.
TIP: PRISMA will automatically look for variant spellings of certain common words in English; for example entering theater will also return results containing the word theatre. This feature can be over-ridden by enclosing the keyword in double-quotes e.g. "theater".
TIP: All searches are case-insensitive, so you don't have to know whether a word should be capitalized or not. For example, there is no difference between Peruano, or peruano.
TIP: Searches do not distinguish between accented and unaccented characters, so it doesn't matter whether the accentuation is included or not. For example, there is no difference between academica, académica, or acadêmica.
The results of your quick searches are displayed on a Quick Search Results page. This page gives you access to all the articles and journal records in PRISMA containing your search term(s). A reminder of what you searched for is included at the top of the page, along with an indication of how many articles and journal records have been retrieved.
You can store a search in the Saved searches area of My Archive for use at a later date by clicking the Save this search to My Archive link. You will be prompted to give your search a name to identify it easily in the list of saved searches. If you are not already logged in to My Archive, you will be prompted to do so.
You can select individual entries in the Quick Search Results page to transfer them to the Marked List:
You can click the Marked List link to view the current entries in your Marked List.
You can jump straight to the start of the list of articles or journals retrieved by your search by clicking on the Article Results or Journal Results link.
To view the full record for an item in the list of results, click the title. In the case of article results you can also click on one of the icons below each result to view the article in a particular format..
The Quick Search Results page only lists the first 15 articles and journals retrieved by your search. If your search retrieved more than 15 articles or journals a List complete results link will appear below the relevant list. Click on this link to view the full list of results for your search on the Article Search Results or Journal Search Results page respectively.
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