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Scope
Wiley Interscience gives full-text access to nearly 500 online journals from publisher John Wiley & Sons grouped in fourteen subject areas including:
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Coverage is from 1996 to the present for most journals; coverage begins earlier or later in some cases. CSULB Authentication is required.
For complete up-to-date information on how to search Wiley InterScience, look at the "Search Tips" on the right hand side of the page and/or click on the "More Search Tips" at the bottom of that list.
How do I start?Keyword Search:
The easiest way to get started is by using a keyword search. You can just type in terms relevant to your search topic in the boxes, and leave the pull-down menu at All Fields. For example, for articles on parenting behavior in fish, you might type in fish, parent, and behavior in the three boxes.
Tip: You can use an asterisk (*) at any point in a word to get all endings of that word. For ex: parent* will find parent, parents, parenting, etc.
How do I type the terms in?
When you are doing a keyword search you can use the following tools:
Boolean Operators:
Use these between your search terms:
AND - This limits your results to articles that contain BOTH of your search terms.
ex. fish AND behavior (This is the default)OR - This expands your results to include articles that contain EITHER of your search terms.
ex. babies OR infants (use this for similar terms)NOT - This limits your results to articles that contain your first term BUT NOT your second.
ex. fish NOT shark*Truncation:
The symbol for truncation in Wiley Interscience is the asterisk ( * ). Using this symbol at the end of a search term will look for all varying endings of that word.
For example: comput* will find computing, computers, computation etc.
What now?
Search:
Click search and the computer will bring back a list of citations. Looking through these citations, you can use information such as the title and abstract to decide which articles are best for you to use in your research.
What do I do if I get too many results?
Hit your back button.
Below the three entry boxes there are choices to limit your results.
- Add more keywords using AND to limit your results
- Limit the collection or subject
- Limit the product type to "journals"
- Limit the publication year
What do I do if I get too few results?
Hit your back button.
- Take out one keyword
- Use OR instead of AND
- Use different keywords
Journals available through Wiley InterScience
Visit the Wiley list of Journals by Subject.
Printing Downloading and E-mailing
How do I get the full-text of a journal article?The Search Results page displays the citations of articles that result from the search you typed in. Information about your search query and a summary of the results is displayed at the top of the page. (i.e. how many journal articles were found)
Click on the Abstract link to access a summary of the article.
Click on PDF to see an Adobe Acrobat version of the complete article.
From either of those pages you can email or print the results by clicking on the buttons at the top.
Other Information about Wiley InterScience
CSULB has full-text access to all the journal articles in Wiley InterScience. CSULB does NOT have access to the OnlineBooks, Reference Works or Databases. To eliminate these unavailable items from your search results, click on Journals under Product Type before you click GO.
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This page was created by Cathy Outten
and now maintained by Hema Ramachandran, Engineering Librarian
Univeristy Library, California State University, Long Beach
Last Updated 4/21/08