
Anatomy of the Advanced Search page:
The Advanced Search page has many more options from which to select prior to starting your search. Choose some now or refine later in the search results page.
- Searching: Select Show All to see which databases are currently included in the search; select Choose Databases to see a list from which to select others.
- Search box: Type here your main terms (climate change) for the topics you wish to find in the database. One or two words or a short phrase is best, not full sentences. Use "quotation marks" around phrases that are more than three words (or if EBSCO does not recognize a phrase of two words) to get results that keeps them together as a phrase. Example: british invasion will give different results than "british invasion".
- Dropdown menu and search box: The default is AND, which will connect the words/phrases in the search boxes to reveal results with all those terms in them. Type another main term for your topic here (wildfires). Example: climate change AND wildfires will look for articles with both of these topics in them.
- Basic Search takes you back to the Basic Search. Search History will show setups for the previous searches you've done.
- Search Options: There are MANY search options from which to choose in the Advanced Search. Some are checked for you already. You can either some choose here or skip this section and refine later, after you've gotten search results. Many of these options are repeated in the left margin of the search results.
- Select a Field: This dropdown allows you to specify what field (Author, Title, Subject Terms, etc.) you wish to look for your terms in the database. This is helpful when you get too many hits and you want to refine your results to the focus of the article (Subject Terms), not just your words found anywhere in the article.
- Search button: Click here to start the search.