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Web search

FSTA Direct provides a link at the end of records on the search Results page that enables you to specify a search for web pages using one of three web search engines. The availabilty of this link will depend on settings made to your account.



Move your mouse pointer over the button and select one of the offered web search engines; be default these are

• Google
• Google Scholar
• Yahoo
• Bing

A new window or browser tab is opened and a search is presented with your chosen search engine using words from the title of the FSTA record. As well as locating web pages of related interest, this may also be useful in identifying online resources for the source article when full text links are not available.

(See the article on Free full text linking for more about the orange full text link presented that uses a Google Scholar search to help locate articles from Open Access and other free full text resources.)

Enabling/disabling the display of this button

1. Log in to FSTA Direct as a Local Administrator
2. Click on the Admin link in the dark blue menu bar
3. You are taken to the Administration area, landing on the 'My organization' screen
4. Click on 'Full text linking'
1. The names and URLs of the four web search options can be edited; please note the syntax for search queries is usually slightly different from the home page URL for the search engine
2. Individual web searches can be enabled or disabled by checking or unchecking the first box for each option 
5. Click 'Apply' to confirm any changes
   

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