All readers of SAGE Journals Online are welcome to search for articles using the Advanced Search feature. No subscription or registration is required for searches, and all article Abstract views are free to all readers.
Fielded Boolean Search
A Boolean system is a way of constructing search queries to retrieve results based on a combination of search terms. Use this section to construct a search specifying your search terms and their logical relationships using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. You can enter multiple terms, including or excluding terms as desired using the Boolean operators as follows:
- Term X and Term Y: search results display articles containing both terms
- Term X or Term Y: search results display articles containing either term
- Term X not Term Y: search results display only articles containing Term X, excluding any articles also containing Term Y
Multiple terms entered in a single search box are treated as an exact phrase.
For every row of search terms, you can also specify a field to which you can limit your search for those terms. Your search results will display all articles matching your specified search parameters.
| Search Field | How to Find Articles |
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| Title | Enter a full article title or portion of a title.
Examples:
Teacher Work Group Effectiveness
teacher assessment |
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| Author | Enter one author name per box. The last name is the main identifier; first and second initials are optional and can be entered after the last name. Characters not in the English A-Z alphabet cannot be searched and can be replaced by a letter without diacritical marks.
Examples:
Wilson or Wilson JM
Mendez (for Méndez) |
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| Abstract | Enter terms or phrases that appear in the article Abstract or title.
Examples:
K-12 education
high school or secondary |
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| Full Text | Enter terms or phrases that appear anywhere in the full-text article.
Examples:
mathematics and instruction
foreign language learning |
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| Key Words | Enter Key Words, as applied to articles by authors.
Examples:
instructional leadership
achievement |
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| References | Enter information that appears in the References section of the article.
Examples:
Urban Education
Cooper, B |
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| Affiliation | Enter the full or partial name of an author's affiliated institution.
Examples:
Rossier School of Education
Stanford |
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| DOI | Enter the complete article DOI.
Example:
10.1177/1469787406064749 |
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| Journal Name | Enter a complete journal title or any word from the journal title. If you reached the Advanced Search page from a journal site, the journal name is automatically entered for this field. In cases where a journal has changed names, a journal name search will return articles from all volumes of that journal (regardless of the varying names).
Examples:
Educational Policy
education |
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| ISSN | Enter the print or online ISSN of journal in which articles appear.
Example:
0255-7614 |
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| Volume | Enter the volume number of journal in which articles appear. Combine with Issue/First Page/Year to narrow your search.
Example:
32 |
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| Issue | Enter the issue number of journal in which articles appear. Combine with Volume/First Page/Year to narrow your search.
Example:
4 |
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| First Page | Enter the article's first page number. Combine with Volume/Issue/Year to narrow your search.
Example:
369 |
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| Year | Enter the year of article publication. Combine with Volume/Issue/First Page to narrow your search.
Example:
2004 |
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Search Within
You can use the options in this section to limit your search results to a certain set of journals. The default option is All Sage Content, but you can also choose to limit your results to My Favorite Journals (if you have signed in with your individual user name and password) or SAGE Content Available to Me (if you are recognized as an authorized user). You can also limit your search results to specific journals within SAGE Journals Online by selecting that option on the right and checking all desired journals in the full list.
Date Range
You can choose to limit your search results to certain date ranges by selecting the starting and ending months and years in the pull-down menus. The earliest date in the date range menus refers to the earliest date of posted content in any SAGE journal. The date of earliest content for any specific journal may differ and the full range of online content for a journal can be found on the journal's Archive page.
Format Results
Search results can be displayed in the standard format or a condensed format. The standard format displays the cover image of the journal in which the article appears, the full article title, all author names, and additional contextual information about the search term. The condensed format is a truncated view of the article citation, without the additional search results features or journal cover image.
You can display between 10 and 80 search results per page and specify a relevance or date order. Relevance order places those articles containing the greatest number of search terms in the greatest frequency first. Articles containing the search term(s) in the title and/or abstract appear before those article containing the terms(s) only in the full text. Date ranking displays the articles in reverse chronological order.
