Understanding the Source List Screen

The Source List screen summarizes your search results according to the number of documents found in each of the sources you searched. It varies slightly depending on if you used Terms & Connectors or Natural Language search method.

Terms & Connectors Source List

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The Terms & Connectors source list displays:

Selecting the View Hits Only check box makes the Source List display only the sources that contain results for your current search.

Click the All Documents link to switch the results display format to the Document List view.

The Search sidebar displays:

Click Modify Search to return to the General Search or Citation Search screen, where you can adjust your search parameters and execute the search again.

You also have these options under Search Tools:

Under Go To click the View in Table of Contents link to view the document results list in a hierarchical Table of Contents view.
 

Natural Language Source List

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Since the Natural Language search method returns a list of the most relevant documents for the search query, the result list is restricted to the 100 best documents. If you want to return a comprehensive list of all documents matching a query, use the Terms & Connectors search method.

The Natural Language source list displays:

Selecting the View Hits Only check box makes the Source List display only the sources that contain results for your current search.

Click the All Documents link to switch the results display format to the Document List view.

The Search sidebar displays:

Click Modify Search to return to the General Search or Citation Search screen, where you can adjust your search parameters and execute the search again.

You also have these options under Search Tools:

Under Go To click the View in Table of Contents link to view the document results list in a hierarchical Table of Contents view.

 

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