General OneFile

Finding Information

One of the major benefits of General Onefile is that it gives its users integrated access to many different types of information. The database can be searched through five main paths (as detailed below).

Searching By Paths

• Journal Search
• For a simple form where you can search by topic, choose Subject Search 
• For a simple form where you can search by matching words that occur in articles, with the best matches displayed first, choose Relevance Search
• For a simple form where you can search by matching words in articles, with matches displayed from newest to oldest, choose Keyword Search 
• Advanced Search presents you with a framework for building as simple or as complex a search expression as you need. You can search using multiple indexes and you can link the search terms with any of three logical operators.

Search Results Organization

A successful search returns a list of citations for matching articles. Citations are brief references to articles, displayed either from newest to oldest or, for relevance searches, starting with the most relevant.

A summary of the search that produced the citation list is displayed near the top of the page. Just below is an indication of which citations are on the current page out of the total number. The navigation icons on either side (repeated at the bottom of each page) let you go forward or backward one page at a time or jump to the first or last page.