An Essential Tool for All Users of the Zoological Record Databases

The Zoological Record Search Guide is designed to support users of Zoological Record electronic products online, on CD and on the Web. This key tool enables users to make search strategies more precise, efficient, and cost-effective. The Search Guide provides the following elements to guide your strategy development:

Vocabulary Guide: includes over 17,000 controlled and non-controlled terms with references to the Subject and Systematic Thesaurus sections. Look here first when starting to develop a search strategy.

Subject Thesaurus: combines unified Subject, Geographical, and Palaeontological controlled vocabularies used in Zoological Record for Volume 115 (1978). Full scope and history notes are included for all formats.

Systematic Thesaurus: contains controlled taxonomic vocabulary terms unified from Volume 115 (1978), indicating taxonomic rank, fossil status, and any scope and history ntoes applicable to the print, online, and compact disc formats of Zoological Record.

Editorial Policies: provides information on the type of material found in Zoological Reocrd, including the scope and coverage of the Zoological Record database, including subject and source content as well as descriptions of the data elements used in the electronic formats.

Search System Information: provides information on the different online, CD-ROM and web systems offering Zoological Record, with details on how to search the various data elements in these systems.