How to... Explore by Research Topic
Web Version of SciFinder
SciFinder lets you explore an area of research by entering a phrase or sentence in English. It uses relationships among the key words to quickly retrieve results that are relevant to your research interests.
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Enter a topic of interest.
You can limit the results in your answer set by specifying the year(s), document types, etc.
Click Search. |
- Specify 2-3 concepts using plain English
- Include prepositions and articles to connect the concepts
- Place acronyms or synonyms in parentheses after the synonymous concept
- Use "not" or "except" to exclude a particular term
- Use limits to reduce the number of results in your answer set.
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Limit by |
When you want to eliminate all references except those from... |
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Publication year |
A particular time period. |
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Document type |
Certain type(s) of documents. |
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Language |
Particular languages. |
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Author name |
A specific author. |
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Company name |
A specific company or organization. |
Note: SciFinder automatically searches related terms and considers alternate spellings and word endings when retrieving results.
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Select candidate references of interest based on the relationship of the terms and concepts within records. Click Get References. |
| SciFinder considers terms to be... |
When the terms are found... |
| "As entered" |
Exactly as you have entered them. |
| "Closely associated with one another" |
Within the same sentence or title. |
| "Present anywhere within a reference" |
Anywhere (perhaps widely separated) within a record's title, abstract, or indexing. |
| "Containing the concept" |
In the record. The entered term(s), synonymous term(s), or similar term(s) are found within the record. |
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Review your answers. |
Updated: 4/3/2008 3:50:49 PM
