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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning, fellow e-resource enthusiasts,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two weeks ago, one of our librarians found a frustrating issue with phrase searching in ScienceDirect. When searching for
<i>"environmental politics" AND forestry</i>, two of the top four results do not contain the phrase "environmental politics" (<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971</a>
and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971">
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971</a>); additionally, the fifth result contains it only in the citations (<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652614001644">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652614001644</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I opened a ticket with Elsevier, and received this response:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The search engine treats all variants of the words as the same word. i.e., it treats environment, environmental as the same word. Similarly, it treats
politics and political as the same word.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">In the articles
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971" title="Click to follow link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300971</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
and </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652614001644" title="Click to follow link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652614001644"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652614001644</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
the variants of the words environment and politics appear together.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The new search engine does not support exact phrase match</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can understand and appreciate the introduction of word variant functionality, but the loss of phrase searching is unacceptable in my opinion. I suspect that this is a very recent change; our librarian found a searching tutorial that includes
phrase searching with an updated date from May this year. We’re currently gathering feedback from our librarians, and will be escalating this with our licensing consortia and Elsevier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We were successful in demonstrating to Gale that a recent change was unacceptable; if you are also unimpressed by this recent change in ScienceDirect, please let them know.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mandi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Mandi Schwarz<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Library Technical Assistant – Electronic Resources | 250-960-6455 |
</span><a href="mailto:Mandi.Schwarz@unbc.ca"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Mandi.Schwarz@unbc.ca</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">University of Northern British Columbia | 3333 University Way; Prince George, BC; V2N4Z9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Gratefully acknowledging that we live and work in the unceded traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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