I searched "Cancer in children" in the All Fields index in WebDewey and it retrieved 813.54. Why?

Your search effectively was "Cancer AND children" ("in" is actually a stop word in WebDewey's indexes). By searching the All Fields index, you retrieved record 813.54 because it contained both of these terms somewhere in the record. Use the proximity operator when you want to search for words in a phrase. If you search "cancer w1 children," you retrieve only record 618.92994 Cancer--humans--pediatrics which contains the editorially mapped LCSH, "Cancer in children."

Last revised: 03 March 2005