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Federated searching is supported via HTTP request and uses the 'get' method in conjunction with the base url: http://www.cairn.info/search.php?fulltext=<X> (where <X> is the searched term). Cairn is openURL compliant.

All metadata is open access and is based on Dublin Core meta standards, through the OAI PMH compliant platform http://oai.cairn.info.

Searching supports patterns and adjacency, as well as boolean operators. Searches can be limited by title, author, keywords, year of publication, and subject.

Users can order results by relevancy or chronologically. Articles can be downloaded in pdf and html format.

COUNTER compliant statistics are available online. Excel reports show the number of articles consulted in html and in pdf formats for each journal.

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