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n What are the Button Bar Functions?

	Click here to return to the Home screen
	Click here to browse the list of journals in the ScienceDirect database by title, subject or publisher
	Click here to search the database by keyword or author
	Click here to create a personal login, or to create or modify search alerts or new issue alerts
	Click here to create or modify your personal journal list and new issue alerts, to change your password or your personal profile
	Click here to access Help from any screen. The Help information relates to the search screen currently in use but also gives a contents list Help is also available by clicking on on the Home page

n How do I Search ScienceDirect?

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• ·You can choose a Basic or Advanced search.
  

Basic search

You can enter terms or phrases in one or both search boxes and combine them by selecting a Boolean operator and, or, not from the drop down menu.

• Keywords - You can search for keywords in a number of fields. Use the within drop down menu to choose an option. The most comprehensive option is to search for words in all of the fields i.e. Abstract, Title, Keywords.

• Author –Select Authors from the drop down menu and enter the author's name.
  

  NOTE:

  Authors appear in ScienceDirect exactly as they do in the original source. To find all articles by an author you must search for all variations, e.g. to search for articles by Albert Einstein enter a! einstein or einstein a!

  General Notes

  Upper and lower case may be used For truncation at the end of a word use the exclamation mark ! eg, model! will find model, models, modeling, modelling For truncation within a word use an asterisk *for each missing character, e.g. wom*n to find woman and women Truncation is recommended after an author's initial eg smith f! Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT can be used

Limit your search

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• Limit your search to full text articles by selecting Subscribed journals from the Source pull down menu.

• To limit the subject field of the journals searched, click on the drop down menu next to Subject and choose a subject field.

• To limit the year, select a range of years or single year from the pull down menus at Dates. The default is All years.

• Click on the search button

• To clear the search screen for another search click the clear button.

Search Results

• Results are listed showing citations only

• Results are displayed in date order, most recent first, but can be sorted by relevance by clicking on

• Click on the highlighted text Abstract or Abstract +References or Article or Journal Format-PDF or Summary Plus if available

NOTE:

You will need Adobe Acrobat installed on your machine to read the full article in pdf format. You can obtain Adobe Acrobat from http://www.adobe.com. The Article link, if present, will take you to the full text in html format

Advanced Search

• Click on the tab Advanced

• In the Query field, enter your search terms using Boolean search terms and, or, and not

• Set any limits in source, subject or date

• Click on search

• For help with complex searches click on or from the Advanced search screen

n How do I Browse Journals?

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• Browse by journal title, subject or publisher. Click on the drop down menu make a selection, then click on
  

• Limit your search
  
  • Display - Use the drop down menu to choose Subscribed journals and display only full text titles

  • Follow the links to the required volume, issue and article of your selected journal
    

n Additional Features

• You can create a personal login to use additional features in ScienceDirect such as saving searches or setting up table of contents or keyword alerts.
  

• To create a personal login click on the highlighted text Create a Personal Profile on the Home page, fill out the form and click on

• You can save a successful search and rerun it at a later date by clicking on the highlighted text Save Query near the top of the Search results screen.
  

Table of contents alert

To have the table of contents of your favourite ScienceDirect journals sent to you by email

• Click on the highlighted text Include this journal from the selected journal page
  
OR

• Click on then click on the highlighted text new issue alerts. From the alphabetical list mark selected journals by clicking in the box to the left of the title then click on
  

Search alerts

• To have the results of a successful search or SDI sent to you regularly as an email
  
  • Click on the highlighted text Save as an E-mail Alert on the search results screen.
    
  • Enter a name for the alert
    
  • Select the frequency from the pull down menu
    
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• Find out when your paper is cited. To get this alerting service:
  • Log in to your own profile and search for your article
    
  • Click on “Save as Citation Alert”.
    

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