Keyword search is similar to relevance search in that it bypasses the subject index and looks for your terms to appear in an article. The difference is that keyword search does not rate the relevancy of the article and the results are listed from most recent to oldest publication date (reverse chronological order). Use this option if you know some of the words but are unsure of the exact subject, title or author's name.
Similar to relevance search you have two options of searching:
  1. In the title, citation, and abstract
  2. In the entire article content
For keyword search we recommend the first option, because searching the entire article content usually produces too many irrelevant articles.
For example you are looking for articles about Internet privacy.

The keyword search for “Interentt privacy” resulted in citation list of 306 articles listed in reverse chronological order (latest first). The search you entered is always shown at the top of the page.

You may also use Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT, to broaden or narrow your keyword search.

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