LaneConnex Search

The LaneConnex search is one of the most highly used tools on the LaneConnex site and allows you to search across Lane's eJournals, eBooks and other Lane resources as well as allowing you to search inside a myriad of resources on the various clinical and bioresearch metasearches. The search is found directly below the red bar on every LaneConnex Web page (see above). You can also install LaneConnex Search Browser Extensions directly into your browser.

Accessing the Lane Library licensed resources that LaneConnex searches requires SUNet ID authentication from off-campus. You may also search and use LaneConnex as a guest without access to licensed resources.

For details on what types of resources LaneConnex searches, see Navigating the LaneConnex Search.

Tips & Advanced Techniques

The LaneConnex search is essentially a keyword search. Here are some tips and special commands for using this search:

Example	Explanation
journal medical association	If you enter multiple words, the search engine assumes an AND between each word, and will search for resources that contain all terms (journal AND medical AND association).
"eating disorders"	You can search for a specific phrase by enclosing terms in quotation marks.
eating -disorders	You can exclude terms by using the minus sign (-). For example, results in a search for resources that contain the word eating but not the word disorders. (Note: NOT does not work.)
pharma*	Using a truncation wildcard (an asterisk, "*") at the end of a word stem (but not at the beginning) will search that word or word stem. This example would return resources that contain the words pharma, pharmaceuticals, pharmacokinetics, pharmacological, pharmacology, pharmacy, etc.

Helpful suggestions

Be on the lookout in the area directly below the tabs for helpful suggestions in red:

• Spelling suggestions
• FindIt@Stanford exact match of resource title suggestions
• Search inside resource suggestions based on the subject of your query (SmartSearch)

How It Ranks Results

An algorithm ranks the search results according to matches of query terms with text in the metadata in the cataloged record of a resource. Search results are ranked according to this pattern:

1. Words in the title of a resource are ranked highest
2. The higher the number of words matching the query, the higher the rank
3. Core material, as identified in our catalog records, ranks higher than non-core material
4. When all else is equal, results are ranked alphabetically