Step by Step with Science Select Full Text (formerly WilsonWeb)
Science Select Full Text is a mostly full text database which covers: science, medicine, mental health, the environment, and technology. It is a valuable supplement and sometimes a good first choice due to its variety of well respected journals. Note: Science Select Full Text starts with a multibox (Advanced Search) as its default. For most students, this simply means more flexibility and room.
- Before you begin, think carefully about your topic.
Most topics for college level papers consist of two main ideas. If your
topic does not have two ideas, then you may want to narrow it. An
example of a paper topic is: the health effects of cell phones.
- The main ideas in this topic are cell phones and health.
- When you put these ideas together in a way that Science Select Full Text
understands them, your search statement becomes:
cell phones AND health. The
AND is not a word, but a logical operator that
tells the computer to look for all articles that deal with both health and cell phones. This
is how Science Select Full Text sees your search. The overlap between the
circles is the result that you receive.
- To reach Science Select Full Text via GALILEO
http://www.galileo.usg.edu,
click on Databases A-Z, a gold tab in the
bar near the top of GALILEO's screen. Click on S and then
choose Science Select Full Text.
- Put one idea from your search statement on each of the lines of Science Select
Full Text's multibox search
form.
- Also check off the box next to either Full Text and/or Page Image (PDF)
to make sure that you receive only full text articles. Page Image yields
PDF files that require Adobe Acrobat, while full text files are just the text
without the orginal images or formatting.
- Click Start to launch your search.
- Science Full Text Select presents articles in groups of twenty (20). To move
amomg the articles on each page scroll up and down. To move between pages
of articles, click the numbers in the Page bar
at the tops of the pages.
- To view a full text article, click its
blue and black striped Full Text icon. To view an entire Page Image
(PDF) article, click its 
icon with the
red Adobe logo on it. Both types of articles pop up in separate pages.
- To print a full text article, choose the Print icon from
the Print/Email/Save icons at the top of the article window.
To email that article, choose Email from the Print/Email/Save group.
- To print a Page Image (PDF) article, click on Adobe Acrobat's own printer,
a small printer icon in Adobe Acrobat's own tool bar.
To email a PDF article, choose Email from the Print/Email/Save group.
- To edit your search or try a new one, click the
Modify Search in the top left corner
the screen.
- To leave Science Select Full Text, close your browser or click the browser's Home icon.