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Concept Searching in STN AnaVist

With the search feature in STN AnaVist, you can develop a concept query and create a results set for visualization.

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Initiating your query

Once you have logged on to STN AnaVist, simply click the New Query button to begin developing your concept query.

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Developing and searching your query

Within the Concept box, you can enter a single term, phrase, or synonymous terms on separate lines. You can also add additional concepts, select operators (AND, OR, NOT, or the CLOSE proximity operator) to define the relationships between concepts, and use standard STN truncation and character masking symbols.

When you are satisfied with your query, click the Search button

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Viewing your results

The titles of the documents in your results set display in the Results area. You can easily browse the titles by scrolling and paging.

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Filtering your results

Before visualizing data in the documents, you may wish to apply filters to your results set. The filters let you:

• Include only documents from a particular timeframe
• Eliminate patents or nonpatent literature

Choose the appropriate filter(s) and click Filter.

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Ready for visualization

The smaller results set displays. You are now ready to visualize your data!

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More information

More information about concept query searching in STN AnaVist is available:

• Creating Results Sets for Use in STN AnaVist tutorial
• Help files (available from the STN AnaVist Help menu)