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Differences between the PEP CD Rom and PEP Web

There are several differences to be aware of between the PEP CD and PEP Web. Most importantly, even with similar syntax you may find a different articles match whenever you use any kind of advanced searches, including paragraph searching, thesaurus, stemming. These differences typically reflect different internal strategies for searching between the two systems.

Function	PEP CD Rom	PEP Web
Scope of articles	1920 - Three years prior to the current year	1920 - Three years prior to the current year Current Content
Home screen	Need to own a subscription before searching.	Free full-text search of the entire archive. Results show only the first few paragraphs or the abstract without a subscription. Full text results are available by subscription
Table of contents and browsing	The CD has more versatility in viewing and browsing various functions. Quick Access takes you right to Table of Authors, Journals, Books, Figures, Tables, and Abstracts. Also, the Table of Journals and Books are conveniently viewed on the left side of screen. Clicking on the "+" or "-" expands the hierarachally arranged tree	The Table of Contents is accessed by selecting the Journals, Books or Author Tabs. Each category is viewed and browsed separately, rather than seeing a hierarchally arranged tree that expands showing all titles.
Paragraph searching	For the most part (there are exceptions), a paragraph is defined the same as the typographical paragraphs you see.	A paragraph in a search is defined as a 25 word proximity. It does not imply that the results will be in the same typographical paragraph.
Search syntax differences	See table below	See table below
Graphical results tree	Shows you the results of your search and breaks down your search into a results tree, showing you how many instances matched each term and clause.	N/A
Search results	Shows a bibliographic list of the resulting documents in the left pane, and you can view any of these, as well as walk through the matches (Next Hit / Next Doc). In addition, you can view (and/or print) a compact list of the matching text excerpts.	Shows a bibliographic list of the resulting documents in the right pane, and you can view any of these, as well as walk through the matches (Next Hit / Next Doc). Users also have the option of displaying the results in a tabular format that enables them to be sorted by author, year, title or source.
Printing	Select Print, which takes you to a print screen where you have to check the article you want to print. The check has to be cleared afterward.	Click on the Print tab. Article in Content screen is automatically selected.

Search Syntax Differences

	PEP CD Rom	PEP Web
Wildcard (any number characters)	*	*
Wildcard (single character)	?	?
Alternate Word Forms	apply% searches for apply, applies, applied, applying	apply~ searches for apply, applies, applied, applying
Psa Specific Thesaurus	trauma$ Finds all documents matching trauma and all synonyms as derived from an industry dictionary (Klumpner)	trauma& Not Yet Implemented.
Fuzzy Search	N/A	psycho%analytic psycho%%%%analytic Matches must start with 'psych' and have at most 1 (first case) or 4 (second case) differences from the supplied letters. The second case matches psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic, psychoanalytical, ...
Weighted Terms	[Rank 15] [Weight 3: gun \| pistol ] violent crime Matches the top 15 items where gun or pistol are present (most important) and the words violent crime are also likely to be present (less important)	gun:3 pistol:3 violent:1 crime:1 Weights gun and pistol three times more importantly to matching as violent or crime.
Phonic Search	N/A	#Siegel matches any word that sounds like it. For example, Seagull, Segal, Siegal, Sexual
Numeric Range	Applies only to special numeric fields like publication date.	Can apply to special date fields and in general searching, e.g.,12~~24 matches any number from 12 to 24 (anywhere in the text).
Any Order Proximity (words near each other, in any order)	"transference separation"@5	transference w/5 separation
In Order Proximity (words near each other, in order)	"transference separation"/5	N/A
Not Proximate	(transference \| separation) & not "transference separation"@5	transference not w/5 separation
Word Search, Boolean "And"	transference and separation Alternately: transference & separation Alternately: transference separation	transference and separation Alternately: transference separation
Word Search, Boolean "Or"	transference or separation Alternately: transference \| separation	transference or separation
Word Search, Boolean "Not"	transference not separation Alternately: transference ~separation	transference not separation

Click here for a more thorough guide to using search syntax.

Please note that all subscribers to PEP, whether they use the PEP Web database (online) or the PEP CD Rom Archive (installed on to their personal computer), must first register with the Psychoanalyst Database (PaDs).