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ScienceDirect User Manual
March 2003
Combining Searches
With the search history enabled (turned on), your search requests and their results are
recorded in the search history table that appears below the search form. When you have
more than one (1) search request in your search history table, you can combine (up to
five) specific search requests to further your research.
Combining
Searches Options
Combining
Searches Help
Select
check-box
To combine search requests from your search history, complete the following steps:
1. In the search history table, click the check-box which appears to the left of the
search requests you wish to combine.
Only search requests that were executed from the same content area can be
combined with one another.
In order to combine search requests, you must be in the content area (or
search form for that particular database or source) in which the search
requests were originally initiated.
Search requests that were initiated from the Basic search form can be
combined with search requests initiated from the Advanced search form,
provided they were in the same content area.
Search requests that were initiated in that content area appear in the search
history table with the first column shaded and a check-box to the left of
the search string. (Use this check-box to select the search requests.)
The search requests that were initiated in a different content area will
appear with no shading and no check-box. (Go to the appropriate content
area in order to combine those search requests.)
2. Click on the appropriate Combine with... link to initiate the combined search.
(See “Combine with…” links explanations and examples below.)
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