Introduction to SciSearch® Plus

at LANL

Welcome to the SciSearch Plus at LANL Tutorial for Stanford Users!

SciSearch Plus at LANL: http://search.lanl.gov/

• General description of SciSearch Plus at LANL

• Scope and coverage of SciSearch

• The value of SciSearch

• General search in SciSearch Plus
  • General search introduction
  • Author searching
  • Title/subject/abstract searching
  • Boolean searching and truncation
  • Journal searching
  • Institution searching
  • Limiting by date and number of citations to retrieve
  • Sorting results
  • Displaying, marking and printing citations
  • LinkSeeker and links to full text
  • Search history

• Cited search in SciSearch

  • Introduction to cited search
  • Browsing

• Weekly alerting service and personalization features

  • Introduction to alerts
  • Creating an alert
  • Personalization features

Michael Newman
Falconer Biology Library
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-5021
mnewman@stanford.edu

Last modified: April, 2003