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Searching articles
Usually, it is possible to perform both basic and advanced search.
These databases do not offer subject terms, you have to use keyword search.
Usually, you can search the whole contents of the database, or in case of advance search, you can limit your search by selected journals and time periods, in many databases also by a wider or narrower subject area, and in some databases, even by the type of the article.
You can use the Boolean operators and truncation. See https://sisu.ut.ee/principles/building-query for the general principles of information search. However, different databases may have different rules. See under the Help link of the databases whether the entered words are searched automatically as a phrase or whether they are connected with the AND operator and what is the order of precedence of the operators. In the database Science Direct, the order of operation of the operators is different, see the database manuals for more details.
Articles can usually be arranged by their relevance or publication date; some databases may offer some additional possibilities, e.g., arranging by journal titles, authors, etc.
If you make a search without temporal limits, you may also get older articles whose full texts cannot be accessed. Access to the full text is usually marked by a green dot before the record of the article, or by some other means.
Each article record contains a DOI number. This is an unchanging identifier of a digital object, related to this article. Copy this DOI number from the article record, and by using the address https://dx.doi.org/ , you can always retrieve this article. See also https://www.doi.org/.
Databases’ search help