ScienceDirect (SDOL)教育训练 2008.ppt

* Title finder used to only be on the homepage and the journal/book homepages, now is accessible from every page via the QS bar. Volume/issue/page search only available via the search form (and many users are not aware of this) Author search was already available in QS bar, but not specific. Author search-only was available from the search form. Keywords search was already available. Possibility added to search within a specific year range. * * * All the search forms, except for Scirus, have basic and advanced search modes. The basic search mode offers a menu-driven form that to search terms, specified sources, subjects and date ranges. You can include the Boolean operators AND, OR, AND NOT to limit your search. There is also the option to include or exclude Articles in Press. * The advanced search mode allows you to construct more complex and lengthy search strings. The menu form is replaced with an empty search box. By using Lexis-Nexis search syntax, you can limit your search by field segments by typing in the field name, followed by all of your search terms enclosed in parentheses. You can include Boolean operators to add more segments. * Lexis-Nexis search syntax is used in ScienceDirect. Search terms are not case-sensitive. To restrict search results to terms occurring within a specific field, include a field name in your advanced search string. ? If in the field “Search Term” you enter “(Title) ‘Cloning,’” this searches the title of the article for the word ‘cloning’. ? Proximity Connectors allow you to specify the proximity between search terms. “W” represents within.” “Nn” represents the number of words from 1 to 255. “TW/nn” does not specify word order. Either word may appear first. ? ? “PRE/nn” means the first term must precede the next term by nn words. ? “W/seg” means the two terms must be included within the same segment ? * After you have run a query, you can use the “Search Within Results” box to narrow your results from result