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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 3 Search Fields Topic Article titles, Abstracts, Author Keywords, KeyWords Plus “white oak” or “quercus alba” drug resistan* Author Searches any author on the paper Bergstrom CT Wallen K Group Author Group or organization credited with authorship Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group Beta Cell Biology Consortium Publication Name Journal titleCzech Journal of Food Sciences Progress in Brain Research Publication Year Year article was published Address Searches abbreviated author affiliations Emory Univ, Dept Biol, Atlanta, GA USA
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 4 Enter a search 1. NOT 2. AND 3. OR
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 5 Truncation SymbolRetrieves * Zero or more characters gene* gene, genetics, generation $ Zero or one character colo$r color, colour ? One character only en?oblast entoblast, endoblast
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 6 Boolean Operators All search terms must occur to be retrieved. TOPIC: “stem cell*” AND lymphoma Retrieves documents that contain the phrase stem cell and the term lymphoma. This is equivalent to searching “stem cell*” lymphoma Any one of the search terms must occur to be retrieved. Use when searching variants and synonyms. TOPIC: aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener* Retrieves documents that contain at least one of the terms. Excludes records that contain a given search term. TOPIC: aids NOT hearing Retrieves documents with aids, excluding any which also contain hearing.
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 7 Proximity Operators Phrase searching To search for an exact phrase enter the phrase in quotation marks. Example: “stem cell” SameTerms must occur within the same sentence, where “sentence” is generally a period-delimited string, in any order. In keyword fields, the SAME operator will retrieve records with search terms in the same keyword phrase. Example: stem SAME cell
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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 9 Using Search Aids Search Aids are available for the Author, Group Author, and Publication Name fields. Click the magnifying glass icon to access the index lookup pages.
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 10 Using Search Aids (cont’d) Enter a keyword in the Find box to search for titles containing a keyword. Click ADD to add titles to the box below, then click OK to add them to the main Search page.
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