Lotus Newsletter Researchers Database
Search guidelines
The Lotus Newsletter Researchers Database holds the information related to more than 180 scientists. The records has the information for each researcher organized in fields: name of the scientist, position and general information about the Institution (name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, email address and personal or institutional web pages). The list of Lotus species and disciplines/areas of interest, as well as a note field with the research summary and links to the publication registered at the Lotus Newsletter Literature Database.
Simple to search
The search explores all fields at once. Type one or more search terms (the words or phrase that best describe the information you want to find) into the search box and hit the 'Enter' key or click on the Flower Search button. For example:
Case is ignored: upper and lower case letters are treated as being alike. For example, searches for Lotus corniculatus, lotus corniculatus and Lotus Corniculatus will all return the same results.
Operators in the Search
The search algorithm searches for character strings, and does not accommodate wildcards or common operators like AND and OR. Do not use punctuation like dots or semicolon.
You can enter any consecutive string of words separated by spaces (for example Lotus corniculatus). The space operator is like the OR operator. The results table will include all records with at least one of the words; therefore, it will be the largest output.
You can reduce the search results in three ways:
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The first alternative is to introduce between two words the minus operator (for example: Lotus - corniculatus). The minus operator works like NOT, thus the output will be all records with the first word, but without the following word.
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The second alternatives is to add between words the plus operator. This operator is equivalent to AND. Therefore, the search for Lotus + corniculatus will find all records that has both words.
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The third alternative is to enter any consecutive string of letters, spaces, and punctuation that might appear in a field between the quote operator "". Only an exact match of that string will result in a hit if you include the text between quotations (for example: "Lotus corniculatus").
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To restrict a search further, just include more terms.
The Results
In response, the results page produces a table: a list of researchers related to your search terms. There is no weighting of returns.
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Results Order
The results table is sorted in alphabetical order by family name. Hit the header to order the results by country.
Visualize Scientist Record
Hit the "Visualize" flower button at the right margin of the results table to display the full information of the scientist.
| Name and Surname | Country | Date of update | ||
| William F. GRANT | Canada | william.grant@mcgill.ca | Sep 13 2004 |
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