We've seen how to do a basic search in sermon now. I'm going to show you how to do a complex search using the advanced search screen. This is a good way to search if you don't like using brackets so first of all how to get into the advanced search screen. Well it's quite simple you can see. There's a link just here on the front page of summon to the right of the 83rd list of electronic resources and journals so once we're in the screen you can see. It's obviously slightly more complex than the basic search screen. I'll just explain what we've got going on here. First of all these boxes down the middle of the screen. This is where you will put your search terms and the reason there are multiple boxes and is because that enables you to build a more advanced search without the need to use brackets. Basically the boxes act like the brackets that you would put around a string of alternative search terms. I'll show you how that works in a minute you'll notice there are drop-down boxes that currently say all fields. I'll just show you what happens when we look into those and these boxes enable you to search not just the full text of the articles on summon but also individual search fields. So if you want to look for a particular author's work if you want to look for articles or books with a particular word or words in the title or if you want to search on subject terms that have been given to books or articles you can do all that here okay. The more advanced ones. It's you're not going to use those terribly often. I do sometimes do a search using just terms that feature in the abstract of an article that's quite a good way of bringing that back a smaller and more focused set of search results just searching the abstract apart from that I think you can largely ignore the options under advanced. Okay and you can see on the right-hand side of the screen. You've got your boolean connect the connectors that enable you to join your words and phrases together in a way that makes sense to summon so and and all we've already talked about there is also the option of searching or not which excludes a certain search term from your search so that means it will not bring back any articles or books that have that term in them.

I would discourage you from using not at the moment because it's actually really difficult to use it effectively and it's easy to exclude things that are actually useful and interesting so I'd stick to ammdon or and if you want more rows than four you can add them on by clicking. Add a row and you can set your publication date using these little calendar icons here so let's get on and actually do a search so as an example. I'm going to use the search that we did earlier about proportional representation or first-past-the-post voting systems and whether we find strategic voting happening under those systems so the first key concept is proportional representation or first-past-the-post. I'll just type that. In and second key. Concept is variations on strategic voting. You'll remember that we have to put in variations on the term strategic voting because we're using phrase searching to make our results list more focused and we can't combine and using the asterisk with phrase searching so just to remind you. I we're doing it that way. Okay so you can see. I've set it up with all the variations on my search terms strung together with all and the all of courses in capitals because it has to be for someone. I'm going to set the date range now and I'm going to go back five years so we'll go back to August 2011. Then you'll see when you click on the second calendar that the date just pops up automatically you can just select it. That's great i'm going to select my content type now it defaults to searching any type of material but in this case. I'm just looking for journal articles so I'm going to select that from the list and we'll select the language which is obviously English and I'm also going to say that I only want scholarly materials including peer-reviewed journals and I'm going to exclude book reviews from the search there's no point in excluding newspaper articles and dissertations or theses because I've already selected journal article as a content type but you do sometimes find that book reviews sneak into a journal article search so that's why I'm excluding them okay.

The final option is to include results from outside the library's collection. That's something that may be useful to you later on in your course when you're maybe working towards your dissertation and you want to find maybe some books and articles that we don't have here at huddersfield. That's a good way of doing that but for now. I would leave that blank. And we'll click search okay. And that's brought us back 148 results which is a really nice set of results not too few not too many just to remind you. We're aiming to bring back a results list of fewer than 200 if possible because someone only shows us 200 results if we wanted to we could also at this stage just select the articles that have been indexed using the political science discipline that would also just eliminate any irrelevant results that have have crept in there. Okay that's all for this video. Thanks very much for listening.