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| Basic INFOMINE Searching: Searches retrieve terms in: 1) title, subject, author, keyword, and description. 2) three or four pages of rich text from the Web site. Advanced and Subject Category Searching: Searches are set to retrieve terms in title, subject, author, keyword, and description OR you can select which fields to search. | |
| A search for: | Retrieves: |
| smog | smog |
| industr* | industries, industry, industrial, industrialization, ... |
| rivers | only the word rivers |
| rivers* | rivers, Riverside, Riverside's, National Scenic Rivers |
| |rivers| | Only the exact, complete term rivers in INFOMINE's subject, title, author, or keyword fields. (rivers not Rivers, Joan) Use "pipe" symbol... usually on the \ key |
| "new mexico" | new must appear next to mexico to get New Mexico in that order |
| new mexico | new and mexico (retrieves Mexico and New Zealand and new fashions in Mexico, as well as New Mexico) |
| |new mexico| | New Mexico retrieves only the exact, complete phrase in INFOMINE's subject, title, author, or keyword fields. (retrieves New Mexico but does not retrieve University of New Mexico) Use "pipe" symbol... usually on the \ key |
| genetics databases genetics and databases |
genetic and databases The two searches retrieve identical results |
| windows not microsoft | retrieves windows but not if the word microsoft is present |
| crime and |states| crime |states| |
states rather than United States Finds web sites about crime in individual states rather than the many more sites about crime in the United States nationwide. The two searches retrieve identical results. |
| rice or oryza | either rice or oryza or both rice and oryza |
| sustainable (agriculture or farming) | sustainable and agriculture as well as sustainable and farming |
| renaissance near4 history | renaissance and history within four words of one another (retrieves history of the Renaissance and Renaissance drama as cultural history) The range for near is: near1 to near20 |
Advanced Search
| INFOMINE Advanced Search fields and options | ||
| Field | Content | Usage |
| Author | Personal and corporate (institutions, agencies, associations, businesses, etc.) author names and acronyms | Search/browse |
| Description | Annotation of the web resource | Search |
| Full text | Rich text from the top pages of a web resource, "about" pages, tables of contents, etc. | Search |
| Keyword | Topics, document or resource types, titles, personal and place names, and other tags | Search/browse |
| MyInfomine | Custom tags used to create bibliographies | Search |
| Record origin | Expert: record created by a person
Robot: record created by computer crawler or classifier |
Limit search |
| Resource access | Free resources are available to all
Fee-based resources require a subscription for access |
Limit search |
| Resource types | Categories of web resources by format or source | Limit search/ browse |
| Subject | Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) | Search/browse |
| Title | Name or title of the web resource | Search/browse |
| What's New | Resources added to Infomine in the last 20 days | Browse/RSS |
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