Sample Searches

Newsletters ASAP Sample Searches

Newsletters ASAP provides access to information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers.

Search 1:

A caller using Newsletters ASAP wanted to know how he could find newsletter articles since July of 2002 that mention Microsoft Office software compatibility issues related to the Linux computer operating system.

Solution:

1. Opened Newsletters ASAP and went to the "Keyword search" page.
2. Entered "Linux and (Microsoft Office) and compat*" in the entry box.
3. Limited by date "after" June 2002.
4. Clicked on the "Search" button and retrieved 10 articles.

Search 2:

A sales representative asking on behalf of a potential purchaser of Newsletters ASAP wanted to know how to find articles on economic forecasts in the area of biotechnology in the following newsletters:

Biotech Business
Biotech Equipment Update
Biotech Financial Reports
Biotech Patent News

Solution:

1. Opened Newsletters ASAP and went to the "Keyword search" page.
2. Clicked the "Browse" button, selected the four requested newsletters and clicked on the "Submit selections" button.
3. Entered "(econom* and forecast*) or (market* and trend*)" in the entry box.
4. Clicked on the "Search" button and retrieved more than 20 articles.

Search 3:

An e-mail requestor using Newsletters ASAP wanted to find relevant newsletter articles on Windows 2003 Server.

Solution:

1. Opened Newsletters ASAP and went to the "Relevance search" page.
2. Entered "Windows 2003 Server" in quotation marks in the entry box.
3. Clicked on the "Search" button and retrieved more than 20 articles.

Search 4:

A caller using Newsletters ASAP wanted to retrieve articles from March 2004 to the present on anti-virus computer software.

Solution:

1. Opened Newsletters ASAP and went to the "Keyword search" page.
2. Entered "(anti-virus software) or (antivirus software)" in the entry box.
3. Limited by date "after" February 2004.
4. Clicked on the "Search" button and retrieved more than 20 articles that fulfilled the caller's request.

Search 5:

A user of Newsletters ASAP wanted to find articles about oil exports from the Caspian Sea region published from 2000 to the present.

Solution:

1. Opened Newsletters ASAP and went to the "Keyword search" page.
2. Entered "oil export* and Caspian Sea" in the entry box.
3. Limited by date "after" 1999.
4. Clicked on the "Search" button and retrieved more than 30 articles.