Adapted from ISNI Search: Guidelines and Examples
For more detailed guidance on searching, including search operators, available indexes, advanced search syntax, wildcards, proximity, and more, click on the Help link at the top of the ISNI page.
Table of Contents
1. Searches
There are several methods that can be used to search in the web interface:.
1.1. Simple searches using prompt boxes
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Access Name | Command Name | Examples |
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Any keyword | aw: | Searches for the words “peters “and “gerlach” in any indexed field. aw: peters gerlalch |
Any phrase | aph: | This index is designed to retrieve names more accurately than by name keyword. Examples: “Prince,” “Princeton University,” “Ken Follett,” “Follett, Ken,” “Follett, K,” Note: it is important to include the comma at the end to signify truncation |
| Name | na: | Enter personal names as surname, followed by comma, followed by initial or forenames. na: shakespeare, william |
Dates of identity | dti: | Example combining name keyword and birth date (note only publicly available dates are displayed) dti: 188? & nw: huxley |
Language of identity | lni: | Example search combining title keyword “sand” and language of identity “fre” (Note use ISO 639- 2, three character code http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2) lni: fre & tw: sand |
Note keyword | nt: | Example search for a note containing the word “possible” nt: possible |
Publisher keyword | pw: | Example search for a publisher containing the word “macmillan” but not the title keyword “encyclopedia” pw: macmillan NOT tw: encyclopedia |
Standard identifier | si: | Collective index for ISBN, ISSN and contributor identifiers. Example: searching for ISBN 9780192631695 si: 9780192631695 |
| ISNI number | isn: | isn: 0000 0001 1879 5962 The search works with or without spaces in the number. |
| ISNI status | st: | Possible values: A (assigned), P (provisional), S (suspect) |
Record source | src: | This index is constructed with the number of sources followed by the source codes. Example search for all records with PCC as the only source: src: 1 PCC Example search for all records with PCC as one of multiple sources (the digits do not represent eleven but "more than one"): src: 11? PCC |
Title keyword | tw: | Example search combining name keyword “peters” and title keyword “sand” nw: peters & tw: sand |
Pica production number | ppn: | Example search for a record by PPN 067467237 (no ISNI assigned yet) ppn: 067467237 |
ORCID | Orcid: | This index enables you to find ORCIDs that have been added by researchers using the ISNI ORCID link |
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2. Results
2.1 Sorting
In the screen shot below, the pull down list enables you to change the sorting of the short list of records displayed:
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