Searching UnCover

Use WORD search to identify articles or journal titles containing a keyword.
Use AUTHOR search when you know the author of an article.
Use TITLE search to browse by a known journal title. From here you may RECREATE and BROWSE the CONTENTS PAGE of a specified issue.

Using the MENU to search

Basic MENU options for searching are :

  N     for NAME search
  W     for WORD search
  B     for BROWSE by journal title
  S     to STOP or SWITCH to another database

Type the letter for the kind of search you want, end each line by pressing

Searching by Commands

At any time, you can command the online system to perform a search immediately by using QuickSearch (QS). A QS has 3 parts: 2 slashes indicate a command is to follow; a single letter is the command indicating the type of search; the 3rd part indicates what to search for (no spaces between single command letter and beginning of search words). The following examples show several types of searches:

  //N - NAME search, eg., //npeter drucker
  //W - WORD search, eg., //wozone
  //T - TITLE browsing, eg., //ttime

NAME search:

NAMES in the UnCover database are usually authors of articles.

For example, use NAME searching to find articles or material

        BY  --  J.K.Galbraith
        BY  --  Chomsky, Noam
        BY  --  Germaine Greer
 
OR, use QuickSearch command from any prompt:
        //ngermaine greer

WORD search:

WORDS can be words from the title, or from sub-titles, summaries or abstracts that appear on the Table of Contents page for each journal. A WORD search may also return NAMES of people who are discussed or referred to in the articles. You may also supply the name of a journal in your search in order to limit your results to that publication.

For example,

        postmodernism and women
        green politics
        australia asia business
 
OR, use QuickSearch command from any prompt: 
        //wgreen politics

BROWSE search:

TITLE BROWSE allows you to scan the collection in JOURNAL TITLE order. You should enter a title in its exact form.

For example,

        New Statesman Society
        Journal of Industrial Relations
        Technology and Culture
 
OR, use QuickSearch command from any prompt: 
        //ttechnology and culture

Using HELP

Online help is available at all points. Simply type, ? and or, for example, ?n, ?w, ?t, ?b, ?h, ?d, or ?a. See also important new services UnCover Complete (?c) and UnCover Reveal (?r).