PerformingASearchInScienceOnline

While performing a search on Science Online, you can begin with choosing one of the eleven topics provided; These links bring you to lists of suggested topics which may be helpful, but if your topic is not in any of these links you may simply type your topic in the search box on the upper right hand corner of the page. Once you press search, a list of articles will appear, and usually you can tell if the article will hold the information you need by reading the title.
 * 1) Biology
 * 2) Chemistry
 * 3) Computer Science
 * 4) Earth Science
 * 5) Environmental Science
 * 6) Forensic Science
 * 7) Marine Science
 * 8) Mathematics
 * 9) Physics
 * 10) Space and Astronomy
 * 11) Weather and Climate

One other feature of Science Online is advanced search. You can get to this by clicking the orange link "Advanced Search" under the website title. Once you arrive at the advanced search page, to limit your results, you choose to enter words in the article, phrases, ect. of the yopic you would like to research. Then you will continue to the second sectioin of this page, and pick which type of article you would like, from the following: After choosing the one you like, you can also insert the date your article was published, or the time frame you think it was published in. These things will cause your search to be very advanced, and you will have useful results, rather than having many articles that you do not need.
 * 1) Essays
 * 2) Animations and Videos
 * 3) Photographs
 * 4) News Articles
 * 5) Biographies
 * 6) Experiments and Activities
 * 7) Diagrams and Illustrations

I began by choosing the subject link Biology, but I did not see my topic so i simply typed AIDS in the search box (top right corner). Once I did this, I recieved a list of 445 articles. By looking at the first page, I noticed there were only two that gave me what I was looking for, a brief summary and explanation of AIDS. I then decided to use the Advanced Search feature, to find the only articles that i need. Since I did not have a specific article in mind, I typed in AIDS overview in the "With at least one of the words" box, check marked articles, and check marked full text. This brought me to a list of only seven articles, which helped me save time and find what I needed effectively. I also advance searched this but instead, I check marked photographs. This supplied me with visual aids to help me learn more about my topic.
 * Example:** Performing a Search on Science Online, AIDS