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Finding Specific Information Types

If you're specifically wanting a certain information type, such as books, journals, or articles, from FLITE's Homepage and the FLITE Health & Medical Landing Pad's Homepage, you have the ability to scope your search. From FLITE's Homepage, there is the prominent SmartSearch box that has buttons for Articles, Books, or Journals. See screenshot below.

Screenshot of FLITE's SmartSearch with buttons to find Articles, Books, or Journals

From the FLITE Health & Medical Landing Pad's Homepage, there are buttons below the search box to scope your search. See screenshot below.

Screenshot of search facets from FLITE Health & Medical Landing Pad's Homepage

Beyond Books, Journals, and Articles

You may be after a book chapter, a reference entry such as an encyclopedia article, videos, dissertations, or other item types. If this is the case, use SmartSearch and after you run your search, you'll see the Item Type filter on the left-hand side of the results. You may be surprised at the number of item types when you click on Show More! See the screenshot, below.

Screenshot of SmartSearch Item Type Filter

 

Articles - Select Databases

We're all accustomed to retrieving an overwhelming number of results when searching for information and sticking with the initial results that come up. If searching for articles, to get more focused results for your profession, rather than using FLITE's SmartSearch, you may wish to try the following databases: