Identify new technology and innovations in solar energy with Advanced Search look up

A senior scientist wanted to track scientific literature on recent innovations in solar energy. He used Advanced Search in ProQuest Dialog™ to search SciSearch^® — a Cited Reference Science Database. Familiar with the database, and wanting to save time, he started by turning off the auto complete feature, which suggests keywords while the searcher enters terms.

He decided to use the look up capability in Subjects from the field codes drop list; so, after entering his first concept on the top row, he moved to the second row, opened the field codes drop list, and chose Subjects — SU. Then he clicked on Look up Subjects.

In Look up Subjects he entered and checked off five terms: solar-energy, performance, efficiency, energy and power, and then clicked Add to search.

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