Options set on your Search Tools template remain in effect
during your current research session only. If you click the Clear Selections
link, those options will be cleared immediately.Search Tools gives you freedom to customize your search so you can be precise about the documents you retrieve. For example, you can specify how you want your terms to appear in a document, you can limit the search to certain types of documents, you can determine how many documents you want to see automatically, you can specify if you want to retrieve documents by date or by type, and much more.
Options set on your Search Tools template remain in effect
during your current research session only. If you click the Clear Selections
link, those options will be cleared immediately.
At the appropriate tab, select the items to search by clicking the checkboxes next to them.
Type your search terms or a complete citation in the word search box.
Click the Search Options link on the navigation bar.
Select your search options.
Click the Search Now button to perform the search immediately with the options you just set. Your results will appear on screen.
Click Apply Changes to set search options for all searches you run in the current research session only. To set new options for the current session, click the Clear Selections link first to clear out previous options. Then set your new options.
Setting the number of documents returned
Finding your search terms in a document
Display words around hits in results list
Selecting recent searches to run
Creating your own list of effective searches: Favorite Search
Displaying your search results by document
Displaying your search results by table of contents
Searching in particular parts of a document
Limiting your search to the following types of documents