CELD Tutorial

To use CELD:

1. Choose Author, Title, Abstract or Keywords from the pull-down menu next to the text box.
2. Type your search criteria into the box.
3. Click the Search button. This will then display a page of your search results.
4. To view multiple abstracts click the check box beside the citation to select the abstract. Then click the View Selected Abstracts button at the bottom of the page to view the abstracts you selected.
5. To view a single abstract click on the title of the article.
6. From the single abstract page, different options are available (which are not available on the multiple abstract page).
   1. Click on the journal abbreviation to access an information sheet on the journal, including the full name of the journal, the publisher, the publisher's website, and the publication period.
   2. Click on the author's name in the Options box to find other articles by that author.
   3. If the Full text of the article is available a Full Text icon will appear in the Options box. Click on it to be transfered to the publishers website.
   4. Click Print to format the page for printing thereby removing the Options box.
   5. Click Translate to translate the article into another language. This service is provided by AltaVista's Babelfish and does not provide a perfect translation, but should give the basic idea of the abstract to a speaker of a different language.

For best results try these helpful hints

1. Do not use the Author's first name as a search criteria. CELD does not record this information.
2. Use the author's last name followed by a comma and then his first initial. 'Morris, H' or 'Gish, D'
3. Avoid using the author's middle initial. A single author choice of using his middle initial can vary from article to article. For any author, you are more likely to find all of his articles if you just go by his first initial. For instance, 'Snelling, A' will bring back more results than 'Snelling, AA')

1. Multiple words will be treated as a phrase. When searching for something like 'radiometric' and 'radiocarbon', you should do separate searches. If you try to put 'radiocarbon radiometric' in the search box the search engine will look for the phrase 'radiocarbon radiometric'.
2. Title searches will only look for your search criteria in the Title field.
3. Abstract searches will only look for you search criteria in the Abstract Field
4. Keywords searches will look in the Title, Abstract and Keyword fields.
5. Keywords are not assigned by the CELD data entry workers. Only when the published article lists keywords do we put them in this field.
6. Wildcards are not needed since partial words will return results. For example, a search for 'radio' will return 'radiometric' as well as 'radiocarbon'.