UNZA/Wiley InterScience

About Wiley InterScience

Wiley InterScience is a dynamic online content service containing the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals and The Cochrane Library - the world's best single source of evidence about the effects of health care.

Getting Started

Launch the browser. Add the following URL to start the Wiley InterScience website : http//www3.interscience.wiley.com

Search techniques

There are three main search techniques that you can use to find information on the Internet.

Simple search:From the Wiley InterScience home page, type in your search term in the search bar.

Phrase search: To search for a phrase, put inverted comas around a phrase.

• Type Forensic medicine without quotation marks into the search query box. Notice the number of results
• Type "Forensic medicine" within quotation marks into the search query box. There is a significant decrease in the number of results.
• If you want to have the search engine search the two words together as a phrase, you must put quotation marks around the words. (e.g. "Forensic medicine").
• Exact phrase searching is a way to get fewer and more useful results.

Boolean operators: This is where you use operators like AND, OR and NOT. These Boolean operators establish a relationship between the keywords/concepts in a search and thus modify the results from that search.

• A searcher can specify that terms must appear in the items retrieved by using the AND operator.
• Using the operator AND between keywords will limit the results of a search because all the keywords have to be present in order for an item to be retrieved.
• Using the OR operator results in either or both of your search terms appearing in your results.
• Using the OR operator will result in a larger number of retrieved items and therefore expands the search.
• The NOT (or AND NOT) operator forbids the word after it from appearing in the items resulting from your search.
• NOT or AND NOT thus narrows or limits a search by excluding the keyword immediately following it.