The option Access to Numbers shown in the Home page takes to the web page with the index of the all the numbers of REIS published so far. Rows in grey show the years. Below each year, there appear the numbers published in that year.
To access the complete contents of a specific number, the user can select the link to the number. The link will show a page with the list of articles of the selected number. Articles are classified in Articles, Research Notes, Book Reviews, etc. in accordance with the printed edition
The link Access to last number of the home page takes to the index page of the last number of REIS.
- Public and Private Articles
There are two types of articles in REIS: private and public articles.
Public articles are those that can be accessed and downloaded freely. They belong to the numbers 1 to 100 of REIS. Anybody can open and download these articles, without subscribing or registering in the REIS site.
Private articles can only be accessed and downloaded by users subscribed to the REIS electronic edition (by means of the usual system for subscription and sale that CIS follows). When a user tries to access and/or download a private full text article, he/she will be requested to login in the system, with a valid user name and password. Only if the user login correctly, he/she can access to full text private articles.
The distinction between public and private article only affects to the downloading of articles. Search tools operate on both types of articles, and the index pages of the different numbers of REIS show all articles.
- Download articles
There are several forms to access full text articles of the journal, all of them available through the Home page of the main menu. These are:
- Download from Access by Numbers
- Download from Quick Search
- Download from Advanced Search
Download from Access by Numbers
The steps to access the complete content of an article by means of this option are:
- Select the option Access by Numbers
- Select the desired number. The complete list of articles of the selected number will appear.
- Select the desired article.
- A page of information of the article with the title, author and abstract will be shown:
- In case of a public article, the following link will allow the user to download the article:
To access full text article, please click here
The user will only have to click on the link. The pdf file with the full text article will be directly opened in the user's navigator. If the user wishes to print, save the file or select text, he/she can do it by means of the tool bar of Adobe Acrobat that appears in his/her navigator.
- If the article is private, the subscribed user must login by introducing his/her user name and password in the provided text boxes:
Once the user has logged in correctly, a window will pop up asking the user whether he/she wishes to open or save the pdf file.
Non subscribed users can find information on subscription policies of REIS clicking on the “Buy” button.
- In case of a public article, the following link will allow the user to download the article:
Download from Quick Search
The quick search returns a list of the articles that match the search criteria introduced by the user. For each article of the results, it is specified its title, author and a link to access full text article.
To access a full text article, the user should select the provided link to download the article.
In the case of a public article, the pdf file will be directly opened in the user’s navigator.
In the case of a private article, the link to download the article will first request the user’s identification by means of user name and password. Once the user has identified correctly, a window will pop up asking the user whether to open or save the pdf file.
Download from Advanced Search
The results of an advanced search are shown in a table. For each article of the table, its title, author, number of REIS, year of publication and number of pages are specified. The access to the complete content of an article is made in the same way than by Access by numbers. The steps are the following:
- Introduce the search criteria (see Advanced Search). A page with the table of found articles will be shown.
- Select the title of the desired article.
- A page of information of the article with title, author and abstract is shown, where:
- If the article is public, a direct link to the complete pdf file is provided. When selecting the link, the file directly opens in the navigator.
- If the article is private, the user must login with user name and password. A window will pop up asking the user to save or open the pdf file.
- About the Quick Search
This tool searches the articles that contain the term or terms introduced by the user in the search box. It searches on the complete content of an article, including the title, abstract, author, body or bibliographical references.
In spite of its apparent simplicity, the user can pose powerful and precise queries, since the Quick Search supports queries with phrases, combined terms or wild cards.
- Phrases
The user can be interested in looking for an exact phrase, like for example, “Grecia Antigua” (Old Greece). To do that, the user will have to surround the expression with double quotes, like in the following example:
A phrase in double quotes acts like a unique and indivisible term. Thus, only the articles containing the exact phrase as inputted by the user will be returned.
- Search of combined terms: use of operators
It is possible to introduce more than one term in the search box, separated by white spaces.
When the user introduces several terms, the result will be the list of articles that contain one or more terms of the search. Thus, it is not recommended to introduce very frequent words like definite or indefinite article, prepositions or conjunctions.
However, the user may want to find the articles that contain all the terms of a query. To do that, he/she can use different operators to combine the terms of the query.
The supported operators are the following:
- OR (disjunction): The OR operator links two terms and finds the articles where either of the terms exist. For example, the query to find articles that contain either “mitos” or “grecia” would be:
The OR operator is the default operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used. Thus, the query mitos OR Grecia is equivalent to:
- AND (conjunction): The AND operator matches articles where both terms exist anywhere in the text. For example, to search for articles that contain both “mitos” and “grecia”, the following query is used:
- Terms Grouping. It is possible to use parentheses to group combinations of terms and create sub queries. For example, to search for articles about mitos de Grecia (myths of Greece) or about mitos de America (myths of America), the user can use the following query:
That is, this query searches the articles where the term "mitos" and either "Greece" or "America" exist.
NOTE: All operators should be written in capital letters.
Phrases work like terms, so that the described operators can combine terms and phrases. The following examples illustrate combinations of terms and phrases:
- Combination of term and phrase with AND:
- Combination of two phrases with AND:
- OR (disjunction): The OR operator links two terms and finds the articles where either of the terms exist. For example, the query to find articles that contain either “mitos” or “grecia” would be:
- Use of wildcards
When the user is not sure about the correct spelling of a term, he/she can use the wildcards “*” and “?”.
Wildcard *:
The wildcard * in a term stands for zero or more characters. For example, if the following term is introduced:
Articles with any of the terms “autocracy”, “automatic”, “author”, “authors”, “autonomies”, “automobile”, etc will be returned. This character can be used in the middle of a term. For example, if the following term is introduced:
The system will return articles with terms like “self-identity”, “self-pity”, “self-mobility”, etc.
Character ?
The wildcard “?” replaces one or zero character in a term. For example, if the following term is introduced in the search box:
The system will return the articles with “team”, “term” and even “teem”. The ? wildcard can be used in the middle or the end of a term. Besides, it can be used several times in a term, like for example:
This query will return the terms “team”, “term”, and also “teams” and “terms”.
NOTE:
It is not possible to use any of the wildcards as the first character of the term.
It is not possible to use any of the wildcards within a phrase. - Recommendation and Tips for the Quick Search
As a summary, these are some recommendations and tips for the Quick Search:
- Do not introduce very frequent words like articles, prepositions and conjunctions as a term of a query.
- Use double quotes for exact phrases. Frequents words can be used within a phrase.
- Terms and phrases can be combined.
- OR is the default operator when more than one term is introduced.
- Use AND to search for documents that contain several terms.
- Wild cards cannot be used at the beginning of a term nor within a phrase.
- About the Advanced Search
The Advance Search allows the user to specify the field where to search for a term. Supported fields are: author, title, abstract (both in Spanish and English if available), keywords, year and journal number.
The Advanced Search is not sensible to capital or small letters. Besides, the orthography of the term can be relaxed with characters like á, é, í, ó, ú, ü or ñ since they are equivalent to their non accented counterparts. Thus, the terms “lópez" and “lopez" are equivalent; as well as “Espana" and “España", that return the same results.
The user can introduce more than one term within the same field. In such case, there are two options:
- Search all words
- Search any of the words
The option All Words behaves like the AND operator. If the user introduces two terms in the field Title and chooses this option, the system will return those articles whose title contains all the inputted terms. The option Any Words behaves like the OR operator, thus those articles where at least one of the inputted terms exists will be returned.
The supported fields are.
- Author. The inputted expression will be searched in the name and last name of the authors.
- Title. The inputted expression will be searched in the title of the article.
- Abstract. The inputted expression will be searched in the abstract (in Spanish and English if available) of articles.
- Keywords. The inputted expression will be searched in the keywords of articles. The list of keywords of the articles of the REIS is delimited. The complete list of keywords is provided in the Keywords section of this Help. It has to be noticed that some terms of the list are compound expressions, like the following:
- Investigación sociológica
- Teoría sociológica
When inputting more than one expression (be it simple or compound), they have to be separated with the character “;”. For example, a search with the terms Investigación Sociológica and/or Teoría Sociológica is introduced in the search box like this:
- Year. The articles published in the inputted year are returned.
- Number. The articles published in the inputted number are returned.
- Combined Searches
The Advanced Search supports combined searches so that the user can introduce terms in various fields. Combined searches can be used for locating articles whose title contains a specific term published in certain year; or articles of an specific author that contain some terms in its abstract.
For example, if a user is interested in the most recent studies on the self-help literature, he could use the following query::
Combined searches use the AND operator. That is, the results of a combined search will be those articles that meet all the search criteria. In this example, the system would return the articles whose title contains the term “autoayuda” published in any number of the year 2006.
- Keywords