When you enter a search topic, you automatically search across both collections. You can view the search results for either collection by clicking on the orange tab with the collection name, e.g. CISILO. The search results are automatically ranked using relevance ranking with most relevant documents listed first.

The ILO Encyclopaedia is organized in Parts and Chapters. You can search each individual Part by topic (as described in the Quick Reference below) or you can easily view the contents of each chapter. When you go to the ILO Encyclopaedia and the Parts are listed:

• To search within a specific Part: from the listing of Parts on the left navigation bar, click the name of the Part and enter your search topic in the Search box.
• To view a chapter: from the main page for the ILO Encyclopaedia, click + symbol next to the name of the Part and the chapters are listed. Click the name of a chapter to go directly to it and view the contents.

In the CISILO database you can search a specific field in the database records as described in Searching Specific Fields.

Use the Quick Reference table below as a guide to searching both of these collections.

Search Hints & Tips

Additional Ways of Refining Your Search

Searching Specific Fields

Field Searching In the CISILO Database

Quick Reference

Tip:  Multiple words are automatically treated as a phrase. For example, a search for welding fumes will find all forms of these words as a phrase. To search for an exact phrase, use quotes, e.g. "welding fumes". To conduct a precise search using multiple words, use the Boolean search operator AND, OR and NOT (see the examples above).

Search Hints & Tips

• Searching for words automatically finds all forms of the words (as illustrated above). To avoid this "stemming" use quotes around the word.
  
  
• Multiple words are automatically treated as a phrase. For example, a search for welding fumes will find all forms of these words as a phrase. To search for an exact phrase, use quotes, e.g. "welding fumes". To conduct a precise search using multiple words, use the Boolean search operator AND, OR and NOT (see below).
  
  
• If your search finds too many hits, try to use words that are very unique and specific. In our databases, avoid words such as "safety" or "health" as they appear in many records. Also, if your word is too general, such as "solvent" or "chemical", you get a long list of search hits.
  
  
• If the number of documents and hits found is too high, refine your search or use the AND operator to narrow your search.
  
  
• The words AND, OR, and NOT are always treated as search operators unless they are enclosed in double quotation marks, e.g. as in a search for health “and” safety, or “health and safety”.
  
  
• Searching for a chemical using the CAS Registry Number makes your search more precise than using the chemical name. The CAS Registry Number is an unique identifier for each chemical substance.
  
  
• Enter a word all in lower or upper case to find all versions of the word. When entering a word/name with mixed case, use quotation marks. For example, a search using:
  
  

"White" will find White but not white.
any of these words Aids, aids or AIDS will find aid, aids, Aids, AIDS, aided, aiding, etc.


• When using words or phrases with punctuation, e.g. apostrophy ('), ampersand (&), or periods, enclose them in quotation marks. See the search examples in the Quick Reference.
  
  
• Use parentheses to make the search precise. If AND and OR operators are used without parentheses, the AND operation will occur first followed by OR operations. See the search examples in the Additional Ways of Refining Your Search

Additional Ways of Refining Your Search

Tip: Use parentheses to make the search precise. If AND and OR operators are used without parentheses, the AND operation will occur first followed by OR operations.

Tip*: Searches using the TYPO operator automatically find the US and UK spelling of most words, e.g. find sulfur and the UK spelling sulphur as well as spelling variations such as labeling and labelling.

Searching In Specific Fields

You can search in specific fields and further refine your search using these tips:

Tip:   You can search additional fields in CISILO, see Field Searching In the CISILO Database.

Field Searching In the CISILO Database

For examples on how to enter field searches, see Searching Specific Fields.