 WebSPIRS |
WebSPIRS
offers a common interface for searching Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) at URI. Biological
Abstracts provides indexing and abstracting of journal articles in the life sciences from
1993 to the present. The Philosopher’s Index provides indexing and abstracts for
books and journals in philosophy and related fields from 1940 to the present. |
| To access a WebSPIRS database, select it from
the list of reference databases at http://www.uri.edu/library/
reference_databases/title.html. In the query box, type one or more terms, combining them as needed with “AND” to narrow your search or “OR” to broaden it. You may use the following Search Operators between terms to focus your search: AND (requires both terms to be in each record retrieved), OR (requires either term to be in each record retrieved), WITH (requires both terms to be in the same field), NEAR (requires both terms to be in the same sentence), and ADJ (requires the terms to be adjacent and in the same order). For further assistance using the Search Operators, please see the Help screens. To search for multiple forms of a word, use an asterisk: for example, gene* will retrieve gene, genes, genetic, generation, etc.
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| Click on Search to see your
results. You can check the boxes to the left of the citations to select individual records
for printing, or you can print all of the results by leaving the boxes unchecked. NOTE: To find out if the journal is available at URI, click on Check HELIN Catalog. The journal record in the HELIN Library Catalog will be shown. To return to your search after checking the HELIN Catalog, click on the X in the upper right corner of the HELIN window.
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| Click on Complete Record to
show a complete record with abstract. Below the abstract, note the fields, which can be
used to find more terms for searching. For a more precise search, you can restrict your
terms to specific fields within each record. Click on Database Guide to
learn how. To return to the previous display to see all your results in the short format, click on the “Back” button. |
| If you have done more than one search and
wish to look at the results of previous searches, go back to the original search screen
and click on the Search History tab at the top of the screen. You can
combine previous searches to create a new one. Check the boxes next to the searches you
wish to combine, then click either and or or to perform
the new combined search.
L. Kelland • 9/99; rev. 7/00, 8/03. A. Izenstark, rev. 8/04. |
