Gale 1-800-877-GALE manual Using an InfoMark, Additional Help Search Strategies Search Terms

■Click Insert Section Heading to optionally add a subhead- ing title to group one or more InfoMark items.

Note: You may add up to 50 InfoMarked items and Section Headings to your Web page.

Using an InfoMark

If you created an InfoMark as a bookmark or shortcut, sim- ply click the link.

If you created your own Web page using the InfoMark Web Page Generator, open the saved Web page: Start your brows- er, and then use the “Open” command to open the file name you saved (default file name is scirc_infomark_web_page. htm, unless you re-named it). Or click the link that appears in the attachment if you e-mailed it.

Note that you and your students don’t need any additional software than what you probably already have on your com- puter to view and use the InfoMark Web page you created. However, anyone who uses an InfoMark must have access to the product from which the InfoMark came. Users who have access to some Thomson Gale products but not the product from which the InfoMark came will see the following message: “The InfoMark specifies a database that is not on your current subscription list.”

As well, keep in mind that successfully using an InfoMark starts a Science Resource Center session. Even if the link simply goes to a document, all Science Resource Center resources are available to the user.

Note: For InfoMarks to work, your browser must be set to accept cookies.

When you or someone else visits your InfoMarked search results, your search is run anew against the current contents of the database. You may get additional or updated information than when you originally performed the search.

Documents that are InfoMarked should be reasonably stable, but the list of sources and negotiated rights (for text and/ or full content display) in a collection can change without notice. It’s a good idea to verify your saved links from time to time.

ADDITIONAL HELP

Further help using InfoMarks, including a guided tour, FAQs, and case studies, is available at our web site www. gale.com .

For more information on how to use InfoMarks, click the icon from within Science Resource Center or refer to the Web site www.galegroup.com/infomarks.

SEARCH STRATEGIES:

SEARCH TERMS

The more search terms you add, the more precise your search results will be. For example:

■human (results=18,125)

■human body (results=411)

■human body and disease (results=49)

Be specific! If you want information about water amusement parks, enter all those terms in your search rather than just the word water or amusement parks.

PUNCTUATION

Ampersand—An ampersand (&) is NOT recognized by the search engine and should not be included in your search. The proximity operator, W, can be used in place of the ampersand. For example:

■A W1 P (not A&P)

Capitalization—Capitalization does not affect your search since the search engine is not case sensitive. That means that a search on Thomas Alva Edison and thomas alva edison will return the same results.

Double Quotes—Use double quotes when you want to find your search term as an exact phrase. For example:

■”metric conversion table”

Hyphen—If a hyphen (-) is considered to be part of the search term, include the hyphen when you key in your term. The search engine will recognize it in your search.

For example:

■twentieth-century

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