Using ABI/INFORM Complete

• Overview
• Introduction

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• Basic Search
• Advanced Search
• Topic Guide
• Publication Search
1. Basics
2. Basics (continued)
• Marked List

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• Printing and Emailing

Publication Search

Basics

Figure 15

1. The very first screen that shows up allows you to enter a letter or publication title. You can enter a term and hit (Figure 15, 1a), use the link "Show all publications" to browse for subjects alphabetically (Figure 15, 1b), or actually select a letter to browse those journals alphabetically (Figure 15, 1c).
   
   It is important to note that if you enter a letter such as "a", this search process minimizes the returned publications to only those titles that actually have the sole letter "a" in them, rather than returning the titles of publications that begin with "a" as well.
   


2. For example, let us choose to browse for publications alphabetically by selecting the "A" link. Scroll down until you see the journal "Adherent; Seattle" and click on the link to that publication (Figure 16, 2a).


Figure 16

This brings up a new screen that allows you to browse the issues of this journal (Figure 17). This is further emphasized by the orange tab that shows (Figure 17, 2b).


Figure 17

If you want to minimize the returned list of journal dates (if the number returned is overwhelming or confusing to view) on the screen, you can utilize the "Date Range" function (Figure 17, 2c). This range function is activated by selecting both the "From" and "To" dates in terms of month and year and then hitting .

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