UvA-DARE contains citations of publications by UvA staff. A large number of these publications are full-text available via this database.

Quick search

If sufficiently characteristic terms (author, words from the title) are known, enter these in the search window at the UvA-DARE home page to find the desired title quickly, e.g. braam structure.

Searching for publications by UvA staff

• Select Advanced search.
• Select authors & editors in he first drop-down menu.
• Enter the author name: surname, all initials and other elements, for example eemeren, f.h. van . If you are not certain of the initials, please only enter the surname. Enter characters with diacritics and accents (e.g. ä, å, , ó, ø) exactly in this way.
• Use the menus to limit the search, for example to institute, type of publication, full-text documents or publication year.
• Click Search.
• Click a title to see the full citation.

Browsing

• Select Browse.
• If necessary, filter on Document Type, Full text, Faculty and / or Publication Year.
• Click previous or next to scroll through the index.
• Click for example an author name to see all publications of the author.
• Characters with diacritics and accents (e.g. ä, å, , ó, ø) come at the end of the alphabet, so that Gärdenfors follows Gyssen.

Searching by faculty or research institute

• Select Advanced search.
• Select a faculty from the drop-down menus.
• If necessary, limit to Document Type(s), Publication Year(s), full-text document.
• Click Search.

Search tips

• In Advanced search you can combine three search windows with the Boolean operators AND, OR or NOT.
• When searching for an exact phrase use quotes, e.g. "quantum gravity".
• Use * to truncate. It replaces any number of characters. The search term postmodern* will find postmodern, postmoderne, postmodernism, postmodernisme, postmodernity, etc.

Full-text publications

• If a publication is full-text available in UvA-DARE, you can download the file on record level by clicking the Download link.

My Selection: add email

• You can add a record to My selection by clicking add to my selection. From My selection you can then open and / or email the record(s).
• Click E-mail My Selection in the tab My selection to send a record either to yourself or someone else (for example a colleague).

Sort search results

By default, the search results are sorted by relevance. You can also sort them by publication year, title or author.

• Select your preferred sorting order from the drop-down menu over the search results list .
• Click Sort by.
• When sorting by title, the (in)definite article at the start of a title is included.
• When sorting by author, titles are sorted by first author.