Title Word Searching Publication Type Searching Proximity Searching Frequency Searching Limit to Only Full-Text Documents Limit the Date of Publication Limit the Size of the Document 1. Title words are what the authors use to describe the primary intent of their publications. Most full-text databases will allow you to give a command specifying a word or phrase appear in the title. Requesting that your search results only appear in specific publication types is a good way to focus the results. Review articles tend to give an overview of the information relating to a requested topic.
Editorial publications can be useful when seeking commentary on a topic of interest.
Typical full-text database searching will find the specified words anywhere in the document, no matter how far apart. Documents where a needed word or phrase appear quite often are likely to contain relevant information. Some databases contain a combination of full-text and citation documents. A command can often be issued to limit the results to full-text articles. There may be times when you only wish to see documents published during a particular time frame.