Building a New Search Using Previous Searches

Using Advanced Search, you can build a search expression that contains one or more result sets from your Previous Searches list. Here's how:

1. If you're not already at the Advanced Search page, click the Advanced Search link on the search path bar (found in the banner area at the top of the page).
2. Select Previous Search from the index drop-down menu.
3. Enter the search result number (for example, R1) or click the Browse button that appears if you would like to select one or more previous searches from a list.
4. Select AND, OR, or NOT from the logical operator drop-down menu.
5. Select another option from the index drop-down menu as needed to build your search query.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5, as needed. You may search additional indexes by clicking the Add a row link.

Here are some examples:

R3 and ke digital

Searches for documents from result set 3 that contain the keyword "digital"

R4 not R5

Searches for documents in result set 4 that are not also in result set 5

R1 and R4

Merges the results of result set 1 and result set 4. For example, R1 may have been a search for documents on the subject "attention deficit disorder". And R4 may have searched for all articles where the type of source is "newspapers". Merging the two result sets searches for all newspaper articles on attention deficit disorder.