Zurich Open Repository and Archive : Hilfe
Table of Contents
- Searching
- Faceted Search
- Quick Search
- Advanced Search
- Index Browsing
- Display of Results
- Open Access Type
- ORCID
- Submitting Documents to ZORA
- Creating Publication Lists (Help only in German)
Searching
Both Quick Search and Advanced Search are available. For most of your search queries Quick Search is the tool of your choice. Advanced Search can be used if a term or a property must be searched precisely in a specific field.
Faceted Search
Facets are helping you to filter the result list of your search. Filtering by publication year or name of a contributor makes it easy to focus on the publications you are searching for without using complicate search rules.
Facets
| Facet | Description | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Year | Year of publication | |
| Name | Autor, Editor, Contributor | |
| Community | Community & Collection | |
| Type | Type of document | |
| Fulltext | Yes / No | |
| Open Access | Open access, Closed access, Restricted access | |
| Journal | List of Journal Titles | |
| DDC | Dewey Decimal Classification | |
| Language | De, En, Fr, It, ... | |
| Affiliation |
Search Operators
Quick Search provides the following search operators:
| Operator | Description | Beispiele |
|---|---|---|
| AND | Blut AND Blood | |
| OR | Blut OR Blood | |
| ... | ... |
Phrase Searches
Wildcards
Fields
Tips and Tricks
Quick Search
Quick Search uses a probabilistic search engine that applies word stemming and stop word filtering and that ranks found documents according to occurrence and frequency of the matched terms. It searches in the PDF full text, in the bibliography (authors/editors, year, title, journal/series title), in the abstract and in other fields.
Search Operators
Quick Search provides the following search operators:
| Operator | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| AND | prion AND bovine | |
| OR | prion OR bovine | |
| NOT | prion NOT bovine | |
| XOR | finds documents that contain either one or the other term, but not both together. A bit exotic. | Aguzzi XOR Glatzel |
| NEAR | matches documents containing both terms within 10 words of each other. Order of matching terms is irrelevant. With NEAR/n (n = number) the threshold distance can be set. | arab NEAR gender |
| ADJ | matches documents containing both terms within 10 words of each other. Like NEAR, but the terms must appear in the same order as in the query. With ADJ/n (n = number) the threshold distance can be set. | arab ADJ gender emerging ADJ/1 market |
| + | includes documents which contain the so marked term or phrase. The terms marked with + do not contribute towards the document ranking. | synthesis +drug |
| - | excludes documents which contain the so marked term or phrase (works like NOT). | synthesis -drug |
All operators must be written with uppercase letters. The precedence of operators can be controlled using brackets ().
Phrase Searches
Terms within double quotes are matched exactly as written (and as written in the given order).
Example: "neurodegenerative diseases"
Wildcards
The only allowed wildcard is *, which matches 0 or more characters. As a trailing wildcard it can be used only at the end of a term.
Example: chlamy*
Fields
To find a term or phrase in a specific field, the field name can be added in front of it using a colon as separator. Terms can be grouped within brackets.
| Field name | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| title | Title of the publication | title:philosophy title:(mice "men") The double quotes cause that men is not filtered as stop word. |
| creators_name | Creators | creators_name:(haas, henriette) |
| editors_name | Editors | editors_name:haas |
| book_title | Title of a book | book_title:(medical imaging) |
| date | Year of publication | date:2014 |
| publication | Title of series/journal | publication:(Virology Journal) publication:"Virology Journal" |
| keywords | Uncontrolled keywords | keywords:drug |
| creators_orcid | ORCID iD of a creator | creators_orcid:(0000-0003-3841-6207) |
| editors_orcid | ORCID iD of an editor | editors_orcid:(0000-0003-3841-6207) |
| doi | DOI | doi:10.1002/hlca.19970800125 |
| isbn | ISBN | isbn:978-3-658-03304-0 |
| pubmedid | PubMed ID | pubmedid:23770569 |
Tips and Tricks
Finding publications by ORCID iD 
: Just paste the ORCID iD of a person in the search bar. Example: 0000-0003-3841-6207
Also subjects and institutes can be searched. For this, the Dewey Decimal Classification code or the numbers of the institutes must be used. This information can be obtained by clicking a subject in the Dewey Decimal Classification or an institute in Communities & Collections and by extracting the relevant ddc notation or number from the URL.
Examples: ontologies ddc000 finds publications on ontologies in computer science (Dewey Decimal Classification 000).
testament 10236 date:2013 finds publications of the
Institute of Theology that contain the term "testament" and were published in 2013.
Mathematical equations can be searched using LaTeX notation. Example: $\sin^2 \theta_W$ can be searched using the notation \sin^2 \theta_W.
Advanced Search
Advanced Search provides several fields from ZORA. By clicking the "?" button at the respective field, a short explanation about the field and its allowed contents can be displayed. In Advanced Search, the previous operators and rules of Quick Search do not apply. Terms are always matched exactly, except if wildcards are used.
Wildcards
Allowed wildcards are % (matching exactly 1 character) or * (matching 0 or any number of characters).
Matching Terms within a Field
A drop down menu in front of a field allows to choose between "all of" (all terms must match, Boolean AND) or "any of" (any of the terms can match, Boolean OR). Default is "all of".
Match Conditions for Fields
At the bottom of the form, at "Retrieved records must fulfill", a drop down menu allows to choose between "all of these conditions" (Boolean AND search) and "any of these conditions" (Boolean OR search). Default is "all of these conditions".
Index Browsing
Publications can be browsed using five different indexes:
- Publication Year
- Creators & Editors - Names can be looked up by entering a family name, one or several initials, and/or an ORCID iD. For the index, names are merged into distinct family names and initials(s), e.g. publications having Muster, Katharina or Muster, Karl as authors are merged into one index entry Muster, K (fuzzy search). An additional index entry is created for names that have an ORCID iD, e.g. Muster, K 0000-0001-2345-6789, and all name variants for this ORCID iD are listed, e.g. Muster, Katharina Esther, Muster Katharina E, Muster Katharina. A precise publication list can be obtained from this index entry. Therefore, tagging your publications with your ORCID iD is recommended.
- Communities & Collections - Faculties, institutes, selected journals and special collections.
- Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) - Publications are classified automatically based on their communities assignment and in addition manually by the submitters. General subjects (first 3 digits) are used only. About 90% of the publications have a DDC assignment.
- Scopus Subject Areas - Publications are classified automatically with fine-grained Scopus Subject Areas if they have an equivalent record in Scopus. About 50% of the publications have a Scopus Subject Area classification.
Display of Results
After searching using Quick Search, results are initially ordered by relevance (occurence, weight, frequency and position of matching query terms). In Advanced Search, results are initially sorted in reverse chronological order (newest documents first). In Advanced Search, order by relevance is not available. The hits can be reorderd choosing sort options from a drop down menu.
Open Access Type
ZORA items having a full-text document are marked with a lock indicating its Open Access type:
Green - refers to self-archiving generally the pre-print or post-print in repositories.
Gold - refers to publications in fully accessible Open Access journals or books.
Hybrid - also called Paid Open Access, refers to subscription journals with Open Access to individual articles usually when a fee is paid to the publisher or journal by the author, the author's organisation, or the research funder.
Closed or Embargoed Access: Download is allowed only for UZH members.
The Open Access type of ZORA items is determined either automatically, using various information sources such as the JDB, Directory of Open Access Journals, Unpaywall, and ZORA item information itself, or manually by the Open Access team of the Main Library of UZH. Note that the Open Access type is not a static quantity, but may change with time, e.g. if a publication flips from embargoed to Open Access.
ORCID
ZORA integrates ORCID.
- Information by the Main Library on ORCID
- Step-by-step instructions
- FAQs ORCID in general
- FAQs on ORCID and ZORA