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Efficient tools for browsing and reading JSTAT are available at the IOP website.

There are two ways of searching for documents that match your interest(s).

If you know some precise features of the documents you are looking for, you can try the standard search. The interface consists of a form with a number of fields, i.e. paper number, author(s), date of publication. The author(s) field may be completed only in part, i.e. with only one author. The system will retrieve all the articles matching the data entered.

If you wish to retrieve all articles on a given subject but do not have any precise information about them, you can try the full search. This consists of one field only, where you can fill in any text or sequence of words that describe or characterize the subject.

A serach tool by topic section is available on the Journal home page. Moreover, after retrieving the requested document(s), you can get all the papers published in a particular field simply clicking on one of the keywords which characterize the paper and are displayed along with the metadata. The system will retrive all the documents archived with that particular keyword.