"Coral Reference Webposter Instructions"

• For best reference search results we suggest that you use the "Advanced Search". It will appear as a default on the search page.

• Default is set to search all databases. However, if you would like to perform a search just on "Coral-Caribbean" or "Coral-Samoa" or "Coral-General", we recommend that you select that specific database.

• In the Advanced Search, it is necessary to provide words, numbers, or phrases that may be found in any of the references' searchable fields. These searchable fields include: author, keyword, periodical, year, title, all indexed fields, and all non-indexed fields.

• Searching fields:. The "keyword" field will bring up references that have been indexed according to words or phrases that pertain to that reference. The "periodical" field will search for records from a certain journal or newspaper, but will NOT produce results from a given book title, conference title, or report title. "Year" searches the years of publication and "title" searches for the titles (or parts of titles) of books, articles, papers, dissertations, and conference sections. "All indexed fields" will produce a search of authors, keywords, periodicals, years and, titles. " All non-indexed fields"will produce a search of the reference titles, notes, abstracts, and addresses.

• For the Coral-Caribbean database we recommend the use of "All non-indexed fields"since this database has abstracts and not keywords

• Displaying the entire database: In order to display an entire collection of references, it is necessary to type a single asterisk (*) in any of the spaces provided to perform a field search. A limit of 1,000 references at a time has been set. For example: Select one database, then type your asterisk to retrieve the whole list.