1. User Guide of IGI Database
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2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Log in 2 Register 3 Language Selection
4 Search Options
5 Research Tools
6 User Resources
7 Search Box 7

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1 Database Search: Clicking on “Database Search” helps users jump to the search page where the following search options are provided
2 Basic
3 Advanced
4 Expert
5 Refine Results：Refine the search results by adding more diameters
6 Recent Search Results

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Basic Research：
1 Keywords（Relevant to the topic; users may type in corresponding synonyms, hyponyms and hypernyms）
2 The “search” button to click on
3 Total Results（Suggesting the number of articles relevant to the keyword）
4 Result list
5 Result sequence setup（sorting by relevancy, title, copyright year either in ascending or descending order）
6 Sources
7 View PDF
8 Save search

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Advanced Search：
1 Filters（full text，title，author，ISBN/ISSN，DOI，Copyright year）
2 Reset
3 Search

6. 1 2 3 4 Expert Search： 1 Search Terms
2 Exclude（any search results containing the keyword will not be displayed）
3 Inflectional (fuzzy search. The search engine is connected to the system dictionary, and many derivational words of the key word will be searched)
4 Weight (Search results will be displayed according to their weight order；

7. 7 2 3 4 5 1 6 6 8 1 Cover 2 Book information 3 Cite information
4 Add to personal favorite list
5 Full-text download
6 Supplementary Materials
7 Indices
8 Read by chapters 3 4 5 1 6 6 8

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1 References of the article with links to the original sources.

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1 Personal Account Management（Personal information，favorite books，search history）
2 Favorite books（Gray: not added to the favorite list; orange: added to the favorite list）

10. 1 Material form：PDF and HTML
Clicking on “PDF”, and the material will be downloaded in PDF form; clicking on HTML, users will be guided to online reading

11. 5 1 2 3 4 6 Article form：HTML and PDF 1 Download PDF version
2 Detailed information
3 Source Title
4 Citation
5 View by pages
6 Clicking on “Top” and returning to the beginning of the article

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