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Using "AND"
If you put an "AND" between two words or phrases, you require that both these words or phrases shall be contained in the reference. If, for example, you are searching for international AND transport, you will find references that contain both these words.

Using "OR"
If you want to search for synonyms or translations of a word or phrase, you put an "OR" between these, for example kollektivtrafik OR public transport.

Using "NOT"
You can also exclude references which contain a certain word or phrase by using "NOT". If you are searching for transport NOT international, you will get hits for all references that contain transport but not international.

Word or phrase
If you write a word and click the search button, the database will search for references where precisely this word occurs. You can also search for a phrase, for example traffic safety. You will then get hits for references where these two words occur together in just this way.

Truncating
By truncating with a question mark ?, you replace the beginning and/or end of a word. If you are searching for transport?, you will get references that contain the words transporter, transportation, transportkostnad etc. You can also truncate the word from the left, for example ?transport? will give hits for transport, transportation, godstransporter etc.

Using parentheses
More refined searches are possible if you use parentheses, for example (accident OR safety) AND (investigation OR reconstruction). Without parentheses, the search for safety AND investigation would first be executed, and then all that concerns accident and reconstruction would be added.

The field "freetext"
If you write a word or phrase in this field, the entire database will be searched for the occurrence of this word or phrase. In the freetext field you can use "AND", "OR" and "NOT", as well as parentheses and truncation.

The field "ISSN"
In this field you can search for the ISSN of the periodical.

Searching simultaneously in "freetext" and "ISSN"
If you write a word or phrase in the freetext field and a number in the ISSN field, you are searching for references where both the word/phrase and the number occur.

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More about the contents of Periodicals

The database comprises the holdings of journals at the Library and Information Centre (BIC) at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). The number of journals in Periodicals is about 700.

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Explaining a reference

Title: TRL Journal of Research
Place of publication: Crowthorne
Type of publication
: T
ISSN
: 1464-7907
Holding:
1(1998)-
Bibliographical data:
VTI P07907
URL:

Type of publication displays a designation applied by Library and Information Centre (BIC), Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
ISSN No
, International Standard Serial Number. In principle, all periodicals and other periodicals must have such a unique eight-digit code
Holding
denotes which issues of the periodical are held by BIC
Bibliographical data
is the identification code applied by BIC
URL
, Uniform Resource Locator, gives the address to the website, if any, of the periodical

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Updating Periodicals

Periodicals is updated continuously.

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How to acquire articles in Periodicals

You can order the articles for a fee. See www.vti.se/bic for more information. Send information on the year, issue and pages you want to buy to:
Library and Information Centre (BIC)
Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
SE-581 95 Linköping, Sweden
Telephone: +46 13-20 43 31
Fax: +46 13-14 14 36
E-mail: bic@vti.se

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Get in touch with us

The easiest way of getting in touch with us is to send an e-mail to info@transguide.org or to fill in a form.

Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Library and Information Centre (BIC)
SE-581 95 Linköping, Sweden
Street address: Olaus Magnus väg 35
Telephone: +46 13-20 43 31
Fax: +46 13-14 14 36
E-mail: bic@vti.se or info@transguide.org
Web:
http://www.vti.se/bic-english

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