At the top of most pages throughout the site, you will see the Quick Search box. From here, you can do a basic search on one or all types of content available on the site.
The default search filter is 'ESRC corporate content', which will search all ESRC-produced material. This includes corporate publications, commissioned content, funding opportunities and press releases.
The dropdown box also allows you to choose from:
- Selected external sites
External websites which have content of interest to ESRC or the social sciences
- Major investment sites
Websites of our major funded centres, programmes and networks
- Award & Outputs
Archive of ESRC-funded research
- ALL
... of the above
You can set any one of these categories, or any of the web resources within them, as your default search source, by defining your Search Preferences.
ESRC Society Today’s search engine produces search results based on conceptual matching of a search term word(s) or phrase, rather than basic keyword matching (as Google does).
You can fine tune your search query using Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, BEFORE or AFTER (these must be in capitals) - eg cats AND dogs - or by using quotes to search for a phrase - eg "United States of America".
For example, a search for:
the future of work flexibility
might become:
"future of work" OR "work flexibility"
The more contextual information you provide to the search engine, the more likely the results will closely match what you are looking for. Simply entering one or two keywords will often not produce the results you need.