A.Ishiwatari's Geologic Reference Search Site

A. Ishiwatari's Geologic Reference Search Site (990811 Revised)

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In this site, you can search following databases:

AILIS

Over 8,000 references for ophiolites and related igneous and metamorphic rocks by A. Ishiwatari of Kanazawa University (2003).
Ishiwatari, A. 1994: Publication of the ophiolite reference database "AILIS". J. Geol. Soc. Japan, 100(2), p. 189. (in Japanese).
All Japanese papers accompany English translations.

MEREF

Over 7,600 references for metamorphic rocks by Prof. M. Enami of Nagoya University (1999).
Enami, M. 1999: "MEREF": a freely available reference list on metamorphism. J. Geol. Soc. Japan, 105(11), 814-815. (in Japanese).
English Only.

TRAIL

Over 50,000 references for metamorphic rocks by Dr. T. Tsujimori of Stanford University (2006)
English Only (Tatsuki's References - Advanced Integrated Library)

UILIS

Over 13,400 references for volcanoes and volcanic rocks by Prof. T. Ui of Hokkaido University (1995).
Ui, T. and Wada, H. 1989: Reference management system using a relational database. Information Geology, 14A, 1-19 (in Japanese).
Japanese papers have no English translations.

INTRODUCTION Every reference registered in these databases includes author(s), year of publication, title, journal name or book title, volume, issue number, pages, key words, serial number, etc. In this search site, however, all these contents are searched without any distinction. All references including a string identical to your key word will be listed. You can also search your previous result with another key word for narrowing your selection. For economy of time and power, please put on the "NO OUTPUT" button (default) for the first time, and check the number of references that match. If the number is reasonable (generally 100 or less), you may click "OUTPUT RESULT" button to get the full list. Please do not search with a meaningless string like "19" or "the".

1. Please click the database you want to search in the box to the right. [BACK]

2. Please input any key word with which you want to search. Please click one of the two radio buttons to select whether capital and small letters should be distinguished or not. Space and some symbols may be included in the key word, but each of the fifteen symbols such as +?.*^$()[]{}!|\ perform unique function.
Please consult the explanations given below for the "normal expressions" using these symbols. If you want to search with the key word "3.5", for example, you have to input "3\.5", adding \ in front of the period, because a period works as a "wildcard" representing any one letter or number (so that, 3.5 means 305, 315, 325, etc.). The vertical bar | is used to arrange two or more key words.
Japanese double-byte kanji characters (SJIS code) are also acceptable, but single-byte (8-bit) katakana characters may cause problems.

Key word: Not distinguish ABC from abc. Distinguish ABC from abc.

3. Please click one of the two radio buttons.
NO OUTPUT. Show number of references that match.　(This is better for the first time.)
OUTPUT RESULT. List all references that match.

4. Please click one of the two radio buttons.
Search the whole database. (Select this for the first time.)
Search the previous result. (This is for narrowing the selection.)

[CAUTION] When another person is searching at the same time on this server, your previous result can be replaced by his (her) result, and you may get unexpected result in your second search. If such a case happens, please do it again from the beginning by searching the whole database.

5. Please confirm your key word and selections above, and click START button below (or hit Enter key)

[CAUTION] You may get a search result of about 2-MB size at maximum depending on your key word. If you access through telephone line, the transmission of such result may require much time. We recommend to select "NO OUTPUT" button first, and check that the number of your result is reasonable (preferably less than 100) or not.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Copyright of each database belongs to each author. MEREF, UILIS and TRAIL are presented in this site with permission of Profs. M. Enami, T. Ui and Dr. T. Tsujimori, respectively. To make a database requires a considerable amount of work. If you get any merit on your research from these databases, we request you to acknowledge this in your article or lecture.

LITERATURE: The CGI program for this site was written by A. Ishiwatari aided with the textbooks as follows: Akimoto, S. and Furukawa, T. 1997, Introduction to CGI Programming. Shoeisha; Nishida, T. and Kawamoto, Y. 1997, Introductory lecture on CGI. Omu Company; both in Japanese.

Usage of "Normal Expressions" [BACK] [TOP]

Each of the fifteen symbols (metacharacters) +?.*^$()[]{}!|\ has special meaning and unique function. If you want to use one of them in your key word as a simple symbol without any function, please put \ before the symbol (\., \?, \$, etc.). The following normal expressions are standard among many UNIX applications.

. (Period) --- Representing any one letter or number. For example, h.t stands for hat, hit, hot, etc. Two successive periods can represent one kanji character.
[abc] --- One of a, b or c. For example, if you input S[aeu]mail as a keyword, you can get papers including Samail, Semail or Sumail (The same place, but different spelling). You can also define the range in a manner like 195[0-9], representing all numbers from 1950 to 1959.
[^abc] --- Representing a letter or number neither a, b nor c.
^Sato --- Indicating the top of each line. This keyword can list all papers, which are first-authored by Sato.
3456$ --- Indicating the bottom of each line. This keyword can pick up one line with this entry number.
\d --- Representing one number. The same as [0-9]. \cX --- Control character.
\D --- A letter or symbol other than any number. The same as [^0-9].
\w --- Any letter or number or underbar ( _ ). The same as [a-zA-Z0-9_].
\W --- Any symbol other than letters or numbers or underbar. The same as [^a-zA-Z0-9_]
\s --- Space, tab, or line feed. The same as [ \t\n]. \O --- A null letter.
\S --- Any letter or symbol other than space, tab, or line feed. The same as [^ \t\n]
\n --- Line feed. \r --- Return. \t --- Tab. \f --- Page feed.
\b --- Word limit. If inside [ ], \b represents backspace. \B --- Other than word limit.
\111 --- A character whose code is 111 (every number is an octet number (0-8)).
\xab --- A character whose code is ab (every number is a double-octet number (0-e)).
aaa|bbb|ccc --- Any line with either aaa or bbb or ccc may be hit (do not put | at the top or bottom).
x? --- One or zero times repetition of x. (Soh?ma represents both Soma and Sohma).
x+ --- More than one times repetition of x (fe+d represents fed, feed, etc.)
x* --- More than zero times repetition of x (fo*l represents fl, fol, fool, etc.)
x{n} --- n times repetition of x (I{3} represents III, Roman number for 3)
x{n,m} --- Over n times and under m times repetition of x (3{2,4} represents 33, 333 and 3333).
x{n,} --- Over n times repetition of x (6{3,} represents 666, 6666, 66666 etc.)
X{,m} --- Under m times repetition of x (6{,3} represents 6, 66 and 666).

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Hint 1. Search with two or more keywords
If you want to find papers with either jadeite or omphacite in their titles, you can describe like jadeit|omphac using "|" (vertical bar). Do not put space in between, and do not put "|" at the top or at the end. The last few letters may better be omitted to get more hits, because the words may change into "jadeitite" or "omphacitic" in some cases.

Hint 2. Word search
The expressions using \b and \s permit you to make word search instead of string search. If you search AILIS with a keyword "exist", you may get many papers including (1) coexisting, (2) co-existing, (3) existing and (4) existence. To select (1) and (2) together, you may describe co-?exist. To select (2), (3) and (4) at the same time, you can describe \bexist. To choose (3) and (4), \sexist is the right way. If you prefer only (3), then you should describe \sexisting.

Links for Other Reference Search Sites (by Dr. T. Tsujimori)

[Kanazawa Univ., Earth Science Department, Journal Links]

[Japanese Library Links OPAC] [Japan Book Publisher's Association ]

[Geological Survey of Japan GEOLIS] [Geol. Surv. Japan Journal Contents Links]

[Japanese Academic Information Center NACSIS Webcat]

[US Book Shop UnCoverWeb] [US Book Shop Amazone]

[Colorado Univ. On-Line Earth Science Journals] [University COOP Book Service]

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1999/05/05 Established，2006/01/29 Revised