Search Results, Timeline, Retrieval Options

SEARCH RESULTS

Once you have filled in your search criteria and selected Search, a list of subject terms most closely matching your criteria will appear on the left hand side of the screen and a list of documents that meet your search criteria on the right- hand side. Related Searches lists all the subject headings containing your search term. Often you will see the term you searched for at the top of the list. This indicates that the term is in the Subject Guide’s thesaurus; clicking on this term will give you a similar-looking screen, only this time the Subject Guide results will be in hierarchical order: you will see head- ings and underneath these headings “See.” If you click on “See” you will retrieve “Broader Terms,” “Related Terms,” “Narrower Terms,” and/or “See Also” under which there will be more general, and more specific, terms. To select a Subject Guide entry, click on its hyperlinked term.

Documents are grouped by data type into the following tabs: Reference, Magazines, Newspapers, Academic Journals, Multimedia and Web sites. Clicking on the labeled tabs allows you to choose the type of document you wish to see. The results list will display the title of the document and its source. Reference documents will display according to their relevancy rankings (how many times the term appears in the article). Results for Reference will be limited to 200.

Multimedia results are listed in alphabetical order according to their document citation. You can view the different data type results by clicking on the labeled tab. If the search does not find any results for a specific data type, the tab will be “grayed out” and will not work.

TIMELINE

The Timeline enables you to find significant events that occurred from prehistory to the present. There are several different ways to search the Timeline:

■Chronology Bar: You may scroll along the timeline bar and choose a specific time period by clicking on the time period box. A description of each period will pop up as you scroll your mouse over the search bar

■Enter a specific year or range of years

■Search Timeline Event: You may enter a specific event into the text box and click on the “Search” button

■Search Timeline Event and Specific year: You may also key in a start and/or end date and a search term. The years and terms will be linked together with an implied “and”

RETRIEVAL OPTIONS

You can print documents of any type with any content. Documents and your Mark List can be printed or e-mailed to yourself or others; however, Science Standards display pages cannot be e-mailed. While viewing an article, you can print it or e-mail it to yourself. If you select the print button in the upper left of the screen the system will automatically format the document for printing taking out the page set-up graph- ics and saving print time and toner.

If you select the e-mail button, you can mail the document either in HTML format or in plain text. Enter a valid e-mail address (be sure to check it for accuracy!). You may type in a subject line for the e-mail message; or keep or modify the default subject created by the system. Select an e-mail for- mat. Then click Send. Only the text portion of documents will be included in the e-mail. Images, audio clips and video files cannot be e-mailed.

When e-mailing a Mark List, you may choose to send the entire list in a single e-mail which will include just the cita- tion information you see on the Mark List page. Or, you can send the complete record of each document in its own e-mail message.

From any of these options, use the Browser’s BACK button to return to the document.

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