The FIND@NAU button appears whenever an article appears in a database without full-text. You can also find links to it in Google Scholar (if linked with Cline Library). Clicking on FIND@NAU will search for the full-text of that article in any of the library's databases. One of two things should happen:
Like everything, it's not perfect, if you have problems using FIND@NAU contact us for help.
McMaster University Library. (2015). Boolean cheat sheet (infographic). Retrieved from https://library.mcmaster.ca/instructional-videos
Proximity searching is a way to search for two or more words that occur within a certain number of words from each other. Proximity search commands vary from database-to-database. Here's how you would create a proximity search in a few popular databases.
N# will search for words within a certain range (up to 255), it is placed between the words that are to be searched, as follows:
W#
In addition, multiple terms can be used on either side of the operator. See the following examples:
NEAR/x will find records where the terms joined by the operator are within a specified number of words of each other.
Replace the x with a number to specify the maximum number of words that separate the terms. For instance the search:
tax NEAR/5 reform
will bring back results where tax & reform are within five words of each other.
We have all gone to the bottom of an article to view papers that the authors have cited. Did you know that you can also search for the articles that cite that paper in their work? By using Google Scholar, Web of Science or Scopus you can find out how others used that article in their own work. These articles will be more recent. This is also a great way of finding out how well known that article is, the more citations it has the more likely it is a 'standard' in the field (be careful as it can also mean that the article is controversial in the field).
Google scholar is a great place for forward citation searches as it is not as limited in scope as WoS or Scopus. To find out who has cited a work start by searching for the title of a specific article.
Look for the "Cited by" underneath the article, the number next to it is the amount of articles citing the work (this number is typically inflated as some of them are most likely duplicates).
Clicking on "Cited by" will bring up the articles that cited that work. You are also able to search within those citations to find articles that mention specific keywords. Just click on the small "search within results" box and then put your keywords into the Google Scholar search box.
There are two ways of approaching forward citation searches in Web of Science. Within Web of Science:
Within your search results, the last column Cited By, clicking on the number that is in this column will take you to the articles that cite the original work. Similar to Web of Science, these numbers are likely smaller than the actual amount.
You can view the cited by for multiple articles by putting a checkmark next the articles you are interested in and then scrolling to the top and selecting "View Cited By"