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P

Peer-reviewed

Used for Referred to academic publications evaluated by a scientific commission composed by experts with a common competence in the same area of research. It's It is a guarantee of quality standard.


S

search builder

A Search builder is a feature (or an interface?)  which can be used to do an advanced search in a bibliographic database.

A free text search can be done; but a search builder includes the possibility to search by individual fields of the record (keyword, subject, title, source title, author, etc.)

You can choose the field in a drop-down menu or you can use the field codes typing them before the words and according to the particular language of the database.

Boolean operators and truncation characters can be used.

Other search options can be offered by a search builder, such as expanders and limiters. Examples of expanders are applying related words, searching in the full text of articles, and so on. Examples of limiters: by date or period, geographic regions, full text available, subjects, languages, and so on.

 

an advanced: if you agree, we can add this word - OK, G

either: are: apply related words, search in the full text

or: are applying related words, searching in the full text - OK, G


U

USB Key

In this moment, it's the only thing that I am able to think to, the other useful -items-  have been already used by some collegues (darn ;).

Oh well, definition: the USB key is very useful to storage store files, because it is small, absolutely light and the newest models are able to receive very "heavy" documents. The only problem is the following, because it is a very small thing it follows that it's very easy to lose a whatever USB key.

Synonym:USB stick, USB flash drive

: Careful! "Storage" is a noun, and "to store" is the verb. You could also say: "it is very useful for file storage"

it follows that: this is Italian :). Funny, but useless in English!

whatever: what do you mean here?


W

Working paper

It's a preliminary scientific paper, frequently considered as grey literature. Working papers are often the first step for related works: academic authors recently set their digital working papers in an internal repository before to publish to offer a free access for colleagues.



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