You can search for studies across the entire DVN from the Network homepage, or search within a dataverse from the dataverse homepage. When you search across the Network, studies from restricted dataverses are not included in the search. If an entire study is restricted (both metadata and files), it is not included in search results unless you have access to that data. After your search is complete, you can further narrow your list of data by searching again in the results. See Search Tips for search examples and guidelines.
When you enter more than one term in the search text field, the results list contains studies that have these terms near each other within the study fields searched. For example, if you enter United Nations, the results include studies where the words United and Nations are separated by no more than four words in the same study field, such as abstract or title.
You can restrict a search to content in the following study fields by using the basic Search drop-down list:
- Cataloging Information - This is the default field to search. It supports a search in any field of the studies' Cataloging Information, which includes citation information, abstract and other scope-related information, methodology, and Terms of Use.
- Title - This option searches only the title field of studies.
- Author - This option searches only the author fields of studies.
- Study ID - This option searches the ID field of studies, without including the handle (hdl) and the authority (1902.X) values.
- Variable Information - This option searches the variable name and description fields in the studies' data files, given that a data file is subsettable. Results of a search using this field lists the studies with the file and the variable name in which the search term was found.