In an advanced search, you can refine your criteria by choosing which Cataloging Information fields to search. You also can apply logic to the field search. For text fields, you can specify that the field searched either contains or does not contain the text that you enter. For date fields, you can specify that the field searched is either later than or earlier than the date that you enter. Refer to the Documentation page for Query Syntax at the Lucene web site for full syntax details.
To perform an advanced search, click the Advanced Search link at the top-right of the Search panel. You can search the following study metadata fields by using the Search Scope drop-down list:
- Title - Title field of studies' Cataloging Information.
- Author - Author fields of studies' Cataloging Information.
- Study ID - ID assigned to studies.
- Other ID - A different ID previously given to the study by another archive.
- Abstract - Any words in the abstract of the study.
- Keyword - A term that defines the nature or scope of a study. For example,
elections. - Keyword Vocabulary - Reference to the standard used to define the keywords.
- Topic Classification - One or more words that help to categorize the study.
- Topic Classification Vocabulary - Reference used to define the Topic Classifications.
- Producer - Institution, group, or person who produced the study.
- Distributor - Institution that is responsible for distributing the study.
- Funding Agency - Agency that funded the study.
- Production Date - Date on which the study was created or completed.
- Distribution Date - Date on which the study was distributed to the public.
- Date of Deposit - Date on which the study was uploaded to the Network.
- Time Period Cover Start - The beginning of the period covered by the study.
- Time Period Cover End - The end of the period covered by the study.
- Country/Nation - The country or countries where the study took place.
- Geographic Coverage - The geographical area covered by the study. For example,
North America. - Geographic Unit - The smallest geographic unit in which the study took place, such as
state. - Universe - Universe of interest, population of interest, or target population.
- Kind of Data - The type of data included in the file, such as
survey data,census/enumeration data, oraggregate data. - Variable Information - The variable name and description in the studies' data files, given that the data file is subsettable. It returns the studies that contain the file and the variable name where the search term was found.