Welcome to a. Scopus video tutorial on search in this example you are looking for articles on the applications of 3d printing for skin grafts to determine your own research approach enter the search terms into the search box in scopus. Curly brackets are used to indicate an exact phrase while quotation marks indicate an approximate or loose phrase use an asterisk as a wildcard to ensure you get results for 3d print and 3d printing as well as skin graft and skin grafting to capture as many relevant documents as possible. Let's also spell out the number 3 in a separate search field by clicking on + changing the boolean operator to or and adding the search terms 3 dimension asterisk print asterisk and skin-graft asterisk. For more information on setting up a search query. In scopus. You can select search tips on the right side of the screen. The default search fields include article title abstract and keywords select the down arrow to find a menu of other fields within which to search for an initial search you can keep the defaults and select the search button below in the top left corner. You see that this search has yielded 18 results. These are displayed down the center of the screen by default. The results are sorted by date you can use the drop-down menu on the upper right to sort in a different order. You can refine your results. Using the menu on the left for each of the facets you can select the corresponding arrow to see what is included then expand the options by selecting view more select the number or the arrow next to a subject area such as medicine to see a preview of your results. You can also exclude results using this menu for example if you are not interested in agricultural and biological sciences or physics and astronomy select those subject areas and then select the exclude button at the top left. And if you are only interested in recent research select the most recent years and select the limit to button at the top left at the top of the page the new search string incorporates.

All the changes made to your search if there is anything you want to undo click. Edit and remove any of the steps before running your search again you you.