Searching
Searching: Entering
Terms
The Default Fields will search the Article Title, Subject Headings,
Author, and Abstract for the words you enter. You can choose to search
just one field to narrow your search or select All Text to search
all fields, including the full-text of articles (when available).

Searching: Combining & Connecting
Terms
- AND returns results that include both terms (example: history
AND European).
- OR returns results that include either term (example: heart
OR cardiac).
- NOT returns results that include the first term and not the
second term (example: nursing NOT home).
- Double quotes " " may be used to indicate phrases
(example: "civil rights").
- Single Asterisk * may be used for wildcarding (example: cook*
searches for cook, cooks, cooking, cookery, cookbook, etc.).
- N# finds two words or phrases within N words of each other.
(example: annual N5 report would find "The report of our annual
earnings was...")
Searching:
Setting Limits
Located below the search boxes, various limits can be applied to your
search. They may include: Full-text (only returns articles with
full-text available), scholarly (only returns articles from scholarly/peer-reviewed
journals), date, publication type, article type, etc.
If you have already done a search, click the "Refine Search" tab,
to set limits to the current list of results.
Searching: Subject Browsing
The Subjects search allows you to browse subject headings. Each
article is assigned subject headings. By locating a proper subject heading,
you can easily find relevant articles.

Enter a term into the Browse For box. Clicking on a subject heading
will show all articles with that subject. You can also find related and
narrower subjects to help focus your search.
Sorting Results
Search results are automatically sorted by date, beginning with the most
recent articles. To resort results by Relevance (to your search terms),
or other options, click on the Sort by menu and choose another option.

Locating
full-text (when not available directly in the database)
Step 1: Note the name of the journal/magazine/newspaper the article
is located in. (Below it is Plains Anthropologist.) Also note the
volume, issue, and publication date.

Step 2: Click the Check for full-text journal availability link.
(This will open new window.)
This will check if we have the JOURNAL Title (Plains Anthropologist)
which contains the article you want.
Compare the date of the article you want to the available full-text dates for
the journal.

Step 3: If Iona has the journal you need, the resulting screen
will list the years we have access to the journal.
If
a range of dates are given, the journal is available electronically
full text for the indicated years. It may be availalbe in more then one
location for different date ranges. Click on the title of the resource
(as in the example above) that contains full text for the date you want.
If
the journal is in Iona College Libraries Print/Microform Collection,
you must click the link to see which years Iona has the journal. This means
the journal in located in print format at the location indicated, for the
years indicated.
Step 4: Then, depending on the resource you enter, you can either
browse by journal volume/issue/year to find your article, or do a search
in that database (eg. a title search, entering the article's exact title)
to find the full-text of the article.

Printing/Emailing/Saving
Articles
Printing Problems? If you are printing an Acrobat PDF article,
use the icon
in Acrobat's toolbar. Or Click the icon
to properly format your article. |
Instead of immediately reading or printing each article during your searching,
you can click the
Folder
icon associated with each article record you want. This will add the article
to a temporary folder. After adding all the articles you want, click on
the
icon
(located above the list of search results) to see all of your selected
articles. From this screen you can remove the articles and citations you
do not need, then print, email, or save (to a disk/computer) the ones you
want.
Important Notes:
Printing/E-mailing/Downloading When an
article is available only as Linked Full Text you must print/e-mail/save
these articles individually.
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