We are excited to let you know that our journals content will be migrating to the Silverchair platform on the 30th June 2026.
All of our content will still be hosted at pubs.rsc.org and the new platform will provide a more intuitive reading and navigation experience, along with improved discovery and indexing of your work.
Please be aware that the site will be temporarily unavailable on the 30th June to support the migration to the new platform. If you are unable to access the platform on the day, please try again later.
We look forward to seeing you on the new platform!
Advanced Search
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Full Text / Keyword
Search phrase entered in this field will run a search across the full text of journals.
The different search fields allow more complex searches to be run. Boolean
Operators AND, OR and NOT (in capitals only) can be used while searching in the ‘with
all of the words’ field. You can also use ‘+’ (AND operator) and ‘–‘ (NOT operator).
Search within Reference Section
The default search does not search within the Reference Section of articles. To include
reference sections in a search, select to ‘Include Reference’.
Authors
Family Name = Surname. Given Name = First Name. You can include additional people using
the “Add Author” link and the OR operator will be added between these names.
Article
Within a search of titles, Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT (in capitals only) can be
used. You can also use ‘+’ (AND operator) and ‘–‘ (NOT operator).
Publication Date
The default is to search across all dates from 1841. To search for a date range choose
the ‘Select Date’ option. There are two ways to specify a date range: within the last
X months/weeks/years or by specifying start and end dates.
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