Problem with Web of Science search using parentheses
- Article Type: General
- Product: MetaLib
- Product Version: 3
Description:
Searching Web of Science via MetaLib for tea OR teas retrieves plenty of results (23433), however, searching for (tea OR teas) retrieves 0 results.
There seems to be a problem with how parentheses are treated.
PubMed doesn't seem to have the problem using parentheses in the same search statement though.
Resolution:
MetaLib does not support searches using parentheses.
If they happen to work in some resources and not others, that is resource-specific and not controlled by MetaLib.
- Article last edited: 10/8/2013