Link to Spires Searching documentation http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/explain/manuals/SRCHPRIM.HTML

Link to HEP list of indexes http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/show?rawcmd=show+ind

Link to examples of compound searches that had a result of 1 record: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/explain/srchexample.html

Link to Spires Index Term rules http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~sul/indexrules.htm

Spires and Inspire search discrepancies

• author:ellis returns 2193 records, fin a ellis in Spires returns 2190. 4 extra papers found for Ellis (one missing in Inspire) found ellis by first name. IRN = 7773331; IRN = 7195605; IRN = 6280706; IRN = 223824;