Just plug in all the elements you have and click on the "Search" button
below the form. This will give you a page of results. If you don't succeed
the first time, just use the back arrow on your browser and try again.
Check for typos and transposed numbers. Maybe delete the page number.
Add
a substitute item, a possible title word. Play with it a little. Sort of
like an advanced book search on Amazon.com.
You can fill as few as 2 or as many of the blanks as you have information
for. In my experience less is more, especially if the reference comes from
an email or handwritten note where typing errors creep in. I find 3 items
gets the right balance between getting nothing and getting a gazillion
results. Especially if the 3 items include journal title, year of
publication, volume number, or first page number. Journal title and year
will get you everything indexed from that title for that year. This can be
great if you are desperate and willing to look at the 1,224 citations in
JAMA in 2003, but not very helpful if you know a few more things about the
article you are looking for.
If you are looking for more than one article save them in Clipboard. From
there you can change the display, email them, or order them through Loansome
Doc. Using the Clipboard will consolidate your requests so that you only
have to do an action once to have it apply to all your results, just like
using your shopping cart in Amazon.com.
NLM has recently added features to automatically fill-in the journal title,
to limit to articles with a specific author as first author, and will soon
be adding a feature to allow you to enter the author's full name.
happy trails
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