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Navigating and refining results

Once you have completed a search in Discovery, you will see the results displayed on the screen. To get the full display you must sign in.

Each result displays in a similar manner, depending upon result type. Journal articles for instance display like the image below. Your results can be refined to find those that focus on your area of interest..

Resource details are at the top of each result. To the right of that are the option to cite, email or save. Click on the title to get abstract and chapter headings. Click on read online to go direct to the article.

The number of results for your search may initially be very high, but you can refine your results using several options on the left hand side of the screen. You can refine your search by limiting to available online, to peer-reviewed journals, by resource type, by publication date, by subject or by language. Click in the box to the left of the name of the option you want and a check mark will appear.

 

Use the option on the left, Available online, to ensure all results are available in full text. Use the option, peer reviewed journals to limit your results to only those are from highly credible academic sources

 

 

 

Refine your results to a certain type of content using the options under Resource Type

A quick way of focusing results onto an area you are interested in is to use Subject. You can pick more than one Subject.

Subject limits the results to those that only contain a certain subject term in them

Select the subject term you want to limit the results to using the options available under. Subject

 

Ajdjust the date range of your results using the Publicatino Date option. Pick a from and to date the click on refine

By selecting the option to Expand results beyond Teesside's collection, you can gain access to resources from other academic libraries. Full details at https://libguides.tees.ac.uk/ILL