Managing Your HighBeam Library Results

After you submit your search, the HighBeam Research Engine displays the Library Results page. This page allows you to see your results, narrow your search, change sources, modify your search, or create a new one. There are a number of different features on the Library Results page. Read below for details.

In this Section

Library Results Basics
Sorting Your Results
Using "Refine by Source"
Display Settings
Saving a Search
Alerts

The HighBeam Research Engine displays the total number of results in the upper left corner of the Library Results page. This is the total number of results that matched your search of the sources you selected. Each result lists the article's title, bibliographic information and a brief summary. The search term that you used appears in the search box at the top of the page, and the sources searched appear in the Refine By Source box next to the search results.

You can navigate through the Library results one page at a time by clicking on "Next", or by selecting a page number from the list to the immediate right of the number of results. You can select the number of results that you would like to see per page by using the drop down box at the top right of the page (you can also set this in the My Preferences section).

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Initially, articles in the results list are sorted by relevancy. You can sort the articles in the order you prefer by clicking the Sort by box and selecting one of the following options:

Relevancy - The HighBeam Research Engine assigns relevancy values after evaluating how closely the words in each article match your search term. Closer the matches indicate higher relevance. When sorted by relevancy, the most relevant articles are near the top.

Date - Click the date option to sort the articles by their publication date. When sorted by date, the most recently published articles are near the top.

In addition to sorting by date, you may refine your search results by using one of the refine by options located on the right side of the page.

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The "Refine By" options appear on the right side of the Library Results page. Refine by Source allows you to narrow the number of search results by choosing to view only search results from a particular type of source, such as newspapers, magazines & journals, books, transcripts, maps or images.

For example, by clicking on "Newspapers," you will see only those items that both matched the search term and appeared in newspapers. After seeing the search results in newspapers, you could click on any other source type included in the search, or click on "All Library Sources" and see all results from all source types that matched the search term.

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You can customize the display of the Library Results page by using the display settings options, or by changing the options on the My Preferences page.

Show Summary: When this box is checked, Library results will appear with a summary of the document included in the result listing. When this box is unchecked, only the title, date, and source of the result will be shown.

Open Links in New Window: When this box is checked, clicking on an article will display that document by opening a new window, allowing you to keep the Library Results open while you view the article. When this box is unchecked, selecting a document will display the document in the current window.

Show Publication Logos: When this box is checked, the logo of the publication will be displayed in the Library results. When this box in unchecked, the logo of the publication will not be shown.

Font Size: The font size feature allows you to select the size of the characters displayed on the screen.

Font Type: The font type feature allows you to customize the typeface you prefer (e.g., Arial or Times New Roman).

To maximize the number of results on your screen:

    1. Uncheck the box for "Show Publication Logos."
    2. Uncheck the box for "Show Summary."
    3. Make the font size as small as possible.

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HighBeam Research helps you save time by saving your searches. If a particular search generates particularly helpful results, you can save that search and quickly use it again later. To save a search, click on the save this query to My Saved Searches link underneath the search box. For more information on saving searches click here.

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Every day, HighBeam Research adds new articles to the Library collection. If you wish, the HighBeam Research Engine will alert you via email if a new article matches your search. Alerts allow you to get Library’s latest information on a topic without having to do research everyday. When you set up an alert, the HighBeam Research Engine saves your search term and constantly looks for new documents that match that search. When the HighBeam Research Engine finds a new match, it sends an alert via email. You set up an alert from the Library Results page by clicking on the "Alert Me" link below the search box. For more information on setting up alerts, click here.

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