Using Search Commands in Dialog
BEGIN
I will use several basic commands in the Command Search option. The first one is the BEGIN command to enter the database(s) of choice.
Take a look at an example of the BEGIN command below:
| Command | Example | When to Use It |
|---|---|---|
| BEGIN B |
begin 155 b 155 b155,172 b medicine |
Use BEGIN with a file number to specify the database(s) to be searched. |
In Lesson 2 we looked at the description of File 155, MEDLINE. It appears to have the kind of information we need for this topic. Since we want only the current data, we can use File 4, which contains information from 1983 to the present.
From the Dialog Command Search page, I will type in the BEGIN command and the database number.
begin 155
Dialog Command Search page
We click 
or press the Enter key on the keyboard to start our search.
Go to the next page.
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