Access: Click on Netscape at any networked workstation on campus.   Start Searching

• At the Ely Library Home Page, click on General Reference Center Gold  (listed under Quick Links to Databases).
• Click on Proceed at the next screen; then click on General Reference Center Gold at the Database List.

 

• Search Screen: Allows you to search by Subject, Keyword,Relevance, or do an Advanced Search with terms that you supply. Just select your searching method on the left; at the next screen, type your terms in the dialog box and click on Search or press enter on your keyboard.
• Subject Guide Search: Lets you search for major headings that contain your search words. This produces a list that groups articles by their main headings for easier review.
• Keyword Search: Searches the author, citation, or abstract fields, or the full text for all articles that contain your search words and produces a citation list with the most recent articles listed first.
• Relevance Search: Searches the author, citation, or abstract fields, or the full text  all articles that contain your search words and word variants and produces a list sorted by relevance (word occurrence).
• Advanced Search:  Searches various indexes that you select: journal (jn), date (da), keyword (ke), author (au), subject (su), and title (ti).
           Examples:    su homeless and jn forbes (for articles on the homeless in Forbes magazine),
            or
           ke switzerland and da before 1995 (for articles on switzerland before 1995).
Result sets from two or more searches can be combined : example R1 and R2 and jn time

 

Subjects containing the words: geriatrics Geriatrics 454 articles or  by subdivision related subjects  American Geriatrics Society 8 articles  British Geriatrics Society 101 articles or  by subdivision

: brings you to a citation list for this heading: : lets you narrow your search by viewing the subdivisions of a heading. : Shows you Related Subjects

The Citation List: displays a list that matches your search term(s). Clicking the following performs:

• View lets you see the articles, e.g. the full text of the article, an abstract, graphics, and other retrieval choices.
• Mark bookmarks an article for later review.
• Select all items on this page - Clicking in the box Marks all articles on the page for later review or printing.
• Limit Search lets you add more words to your search, or limit your found citations to articles with Full Text, or articles  in Refereed Publications, or limit by year of publication.

The Article Screen: displays the full text of one article with graphics. Several Printing Options are available:

• Printing from Netscape: Prefer Print or E-Mail or Retrieval for printing (see below). Click on Print; at the next screen click OK. Printing from Netscape may cut off some text on the right side of the page and print the graphics in an irregular format.
• Printing from Print: At full record display for a Full Text document, click on Print, then click OK to print a formatted copy.
• Printing from E-Mail or Retrieval: Click on E-Mail or Retrieval(on the left) to get the options for printing a copy of the record you're viewing: Browser Print or Acrobat Reader.
• Browser Print means to print the record using your Web browser. Clicking on the Reformat link displays the record again with any graphics rendered at full size and in the correct position. Wait until the browser indicates that the document is done. Click on Print; at the next screen click OK.
• Acrobat Reader  lets you read and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). Clicking on the Retrieve link downloads an image of the item as it appeared in print to your system. To print, click on the printer icon on the left just above the document. Then click OK.
• Email delivery: Enter your email address, select the record format that you want to mail, and click on Submit Email request..

Advanced Searching: Advanced Searching involves three easy steps:

1. Choose a search index (you can search by Ethnicity, Nationality, Place of  Birth or Death, etc)
2. Click in the entry box and enter one or more words
3. Click on  [Search]

In this example, "R1" identifies the result of the first search. The "ke" is a two-letter index abbreviation that means the key word index was searched. Each index has its own abbreviation. You can highlight any search result and click on [View] to see citations. You can also perform more searches, then combine search results using logical operators (e.g., R3 not R5).  You can also use logical and other search operators between words that you're searching for (e.g., apprentice or employment).

URL: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/iac-gref/iac-ref.htm
Page Maintained by B. Hubbard/Last updated 7-2-02/CE