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- The opening
screen allows you to choose between searching across broad subject
areas or searching a particular database.
- First Search
also provides Basic, Advanced, and Expert Search modes.
-The Basic search
screen provides keyword, author, and title searching within a particular
database.
-The Advanced search screen allows you to search a variety of concepts,
choosing between various limiters and search methods, as well as
combining terms, limiting by year, publication type, language, etc.
-The Expert searching
requires the use of boolean searching, wildcard, truncation or proximity
operators.
- In advanced
search you can also choose to browse a keyword index.
- Material
of similar content can be retrieved by following the subject and
author links.
- In BasicBIOSIS,
you may also search by author name, title words, journal name
(i.e. "source"), chemical substance, taxa, and a variety of other
parts of the record.
- Limit your
search by using the Limit Search button, found when you are looking
at a list of results. If you choose the advanced search mode,
you will be able to limit when you input your search and at the
results screen. Categories to limit may vary according to database.
- In BasicBIOSIS,
you can limit year, type (human studies or not), language, and
division (abstract or not).
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