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User Guide |
Initial View
The largest area is the Welcome page containing details of your access rights, and a link to the area where you can update your personal information. Later, once you have found and chosen a volume to read, the pages of that volume will be displayed in this area. The Search Results area at the top left of the screen will display the results of the last search you performed. The Reference Notebook area at the bottom left of the screen displays any excerpts you have chosen to place in your permanent reference notebook. These features are explained in more detail below. If your initial screen view does not look like the one shown here, please consult the Frequently Asked Questions page. You can click on the above picture to see a larger view of it. In Internet Explorer you can resize the areas by dragging on the separators between them. Personal Profile settings The Welcome page confirms your subscription type and gives you key information such as your download balances. There is also a 'User Profile Options' menu at the top, which provides links to pages where you can update your personal information (e.g. your password), set your search preferences (e.g. constrain searches to your favourite serials), upgrade or renew your supscription, or buy extra download credits. Main Toolbar The Main Toolbar at the top of the page allows you to select the main function you wish to perform:
Basic Search
To start a basic search, type your search terms into the search box at the top
of the page and click the search icon:
You can use the Search Range selector on the left to specify whether to search all volumes, only your favourite collections and serials, or only the results of your previous search/browse. The search will look for all pages on which all your search terms appear in whole or in part. When the search is complete the volumes that contain hit pages will be listed in the view-pane top left under the heading "Search Results" e.g.
Click on any volume in the Search Results list to read that volume, to skip between pages that have your search term(s) on them, and/or to extract portions of that volume for later use. Reading Documents
A new toolbar appears at the top of this area: the Document Navigation Toolbar. This toolbar allows you to page through documents, or to jump between occurrences of your search terms. The buttons on this toolbar are described in more detail below. If your reading screen view does not look like the one shown here, please consult the Frequently Asked Questions page. You can click on the above picture to see a larger view of it. In Internet Explorer you can resize the areas by dragging on the separators between them. Navigation
Downloads When you click on an excerpt in your Reference Notebook, the Hit-page buttons on the Document toolbar are replaced with:
You can also highlight text in the main view-pane at any time and copy it to the computer clipboard using Edit...Copy from the browser toolbar (or Ctrl-C), and paste it into your Word-processor document using the Edit…Paste command in the Word-processor's toolbar (or Ctrl-V). Advanced Search
Detailed Search settings are valid for the current session only, and override saved preferences. To save search settings permanently, use the 'Set Search Preferences' link in the 'User Profile' menu on the welcome/personal information page. Browsing
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