Step 3: Run your Search in Web of Science or CAB Abstracts
- Web of ScienceIf you select "All Databases" from the "Select a database" drop-down menu, a search in Web of Science includes Medline, which is what largely comprises PubMed, and it also searches multiple databases at once, which satisfies the requirement to search more than one database.
**Searches 1900 - present - CAB AbstractsCAB Abstracts searches just one database, but the search concepts in this box are transferrable because the interface looks almost identical to Web of Science. CAB Abstracts is especially good for finding agricultural resesarch information.
**Searches 1910 - present
Search for each concept separately, using as many synonyms per concept that you can think of, then combine them together.
For a protocol investigating the diagnosis of osteomyelitis in rats, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits using imaging:
First, search on each concept:
- Search #1: diagnos* OR assess*
- Search #2: osteomyelit*
- Search #3: rat OR rats OR “guinea pig*” OR mouse OR mice OR rabbit*
- Search #4: imag* OR radio* OR marker* OR biomarker* OR noninvasive OR MRI OR tomograph* OR ultraso*
You can string these searches together in the search box, just capitalize OR. Use * to truncate words -- diagnos* finds diagnose, diagnosis, diagnostic, etc.
Then, combine them. Go to the little down arrow by Basic Search and click Advanced Search:
In the advanced search page, scroll down to Search History and click on the check box by each search, click the AND radio button, and click Combine:
Click on the search results to see your final set:
