Narrowing your Results
     
 
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Tagging Documents in Results
Viewing your Search Results
 
     
 
     

Use the FOCUS™ Search feature to search for more specific words within your original search results. The results of a FOCUS search are a subset of your original results. The FOCUS™ Search feature appears in the top right of the Results page.

click a link below to read more about narrowing your search results.

Narrowing your Search

Changing your Narrowed Search

Returning to your Original Search Results  

Narrowing your Search

While viewing the results from your initial search, do the following to narrow the results:

  1. In the FOCUS™ Search box, enter a search term that represents a specific topic within the current results.  logical connectors and wildcard characters are allowed.

    click the Go button to narrow the search.

  2. Review the new results. If you need to narrow them further, repeat the previous steps. You can continue to narrow the results as many times as necessary.

    Note:
    The Terms Trail, located above the View Format tabs at the top of the Results page, displays your current narrowed search terms.

Changing your Narrowed Search

If you have narrowed your search too much, misspelt a word, or would like to change your search strategy, you can run another FOCUS search on your original results by simply typing a new search term or phrase in the FOCUS™ Search box, then clicking Go.

Returning to your Original Search Results

To undo a FOCUS search and return to your original search results, click on the hyperlink of your original search terms that appears in the search trail just above the View Format tabs.

For example, if you performed an initial search on law schools, then a FOCUS search on solomon amendment. The trail would appear as follows:

law schools, solomon amendment

In this case, you would click the "law schools" link to return to the original search results.