Lesson 3: Using Search Commands in DialogWeb
Objectives
In this lesson, you will learn to:
- Identify two of the Dialog basic search commands
- Combine terms using logical operators
- Search on word stems and words in a phrase
- Conduct a subject search using DialogWeb
Introduction
We are now ready to conduct the search to get Brian the information about the use of coral as a medical treatment. Before we start, I better send Brian a note to let him know we should have the information for him in minutes!
Brian —
I should have the information on coral treatment that you wanted. I've already checked a few databases and apparently there are articles in the medical literature on the topic. I'll try to get as much on the topic as I can and send it right over.
Chris
In this lesson we will look briefly at the basic commands necessary to perform this search and use the commands in the Command search version of DialogWeb to see results.
The Command Search Main Page contains:
- A text box for entering Dialog search commands
- A "Submit" button that sends the command
- A "Previous" button that displays the most recent command entries
Command Search Main Page
In addition, as we saw in Lesson 1, we can click on Databases to browse through a list of databases. Available too is a link to Dialog's Alerts feature. View one of the following DialogWeb Tutorials to learn more about Alerts:
- DialogWeb Command Search 352KB, 22pp
- DialogWeb Guided Search 542KB, 27pp
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