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After you initiate a search, Academic Search Complete offers you a number of refining features and tools to sort, expand, narrow, cite, and save your results.
By default, Academic Search Complete sorts your search results by date. Use the pull-down menu to re-sort your results by relevance. This will make the sources that match your search terms the best appear first.
If your professor has asked for more recent sources or you have a topic where you need the most current research, use the publication date feature in the left column to narrow your search. You can either use the sliding bars or type the dates you want into the boxes.
Subject: thesaurus terms are standardized words or phrases that describe the primary content of a source. You can use these terms to help focus and narrow your search. From the left tool bar, select "Subject: Thesaurus Term" and then "Show More."
In the pop-up window, check the boxes next to any subject term(s) to which you'd like to limit your search.
When you find an article that looks promising, select the article title from your results list to get to the full article record. This record contains all the important information about the article including its title, author(s), source (journal or magazine in this case), and abstract (summary of the article).
Use the tool box on the right side of the record to interact with the source. There are many actions available, but these are some of the most useful:
When you conduct a search in a database or the library catalog, the results are organized into records. In addition to information about the source (like author, title, publication date, abstract/summary), a record will indicate how to access your source in full text. When you search for an article in full text, there are a few possible scenarios that you might encounter. Below you'll find four ways you can access articles here at URI.
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