GO TO WEB OF SCIENCE WEBSITE
Search example: I am looking for research articles on exposure assessment of nanoparticles
- Type search terms in different boxes. You can add additional boxes by clicking on "Add Another Field."
- Your search terms are separated by the Boolean operator "And" which means that all of your terms have to appear somewhere in the resulting record.
- To the right of each search box is a pull-down menu. If you are searching terms for a topic, keep "topic" selected. You can, however, search on author and journal name.
- <Click> Search
RESULTS SCREEN
- Results are displayed newest to oldest. You can switch to "Relevance" sort and select publication years on left side of screen below "Refine Results."
- Also below "Refine Results" you can limit your search to a particular research area as well as limit to a particular document type such as review article.
REFINE RESULTS BY CATEGORY/RESEARCH AREA
- <Click> "more options/values" below heading, "Web of Science Categories" to view all research areas.
- Check boxes of interest.
- <Click> "Refine'"
REFINING RESULTS FURTHER
Here are the results after refining and sorting using the following options
- Relevance sort
- Category: "Public Environmental Occupational Health"
- Publication Years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
FULL TEXT AND ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS
- To access full text, either <click> the "Full Text" box as shown in the above screenshot or <click> an article title to view its detailed record as shown below
- <Click> "UFindIt" in the "Full Text" option to see if full text is available in one of UF library's resources.
- Check additional terms in abstract and keywords to use in another search (for example, you may want to re-run your search by replacing the word "nanoparticles" with "nanomaterials")
