FirstSearch:  An Online Introduction

Shortcuts:  The FirstSearch Menu Bar

The FirstSearch Menu Bar performs many useful functions.

Let's look at our CINAHL search on the subject nursing ethics as an example.
Here's a Full Record from that search.
You can the see the Menu Bar with the blue and yellow graphics.
The line below the Menu Bar tells us:

1. Which Database we're in (CINAHL)
2. What terms we searched (nursing and ethics in the Subject index)
3. How many Records we retrieved (4147)
4. Which Record we're looking at (number 3)

Database:  Clicking on the "Database" icon will take us to the Database Selection Area.
The Database Selection Area lets us choose a different database to search.

Search:  Clicking on the "Search" icon lets us perform another search in the same database.

Results:  Clicking on the "Results" icon takes us back to the list of Brief Records.

Record:  Clicking the "Record" icon takes us back to the last Full Record we looked at.

News:  The "News" icon links us to news of FirstSearch changes and new databases.

Exit:  Use the "Exit" icon to exit FirstSearch when you are finished searching.

Help:  The "Help" icon will link us to FirstSearch help screens.

Next we'll take a look at  Boolean Searching.

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