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Dr Socrates - Help
Starting your Search
The Query Box
Type your query in the search box. A query can be as simple as words separated by spaces, or it can take advantage of more advanced features.
Execute the Search
Click the Search button to begin. Dr Socrates will send your query to clinical information sources and wait for them to return results. Those results will then be clustered and displayed for you to browse.
Browsing the Clusters
Viewing the Contents of a Cluster
Clicking on the name of a cluster will display the search results contained in that cluster.
Expanding a Cluster
Clicking the plus symbol will expand a cluster, displaying the sub-clusters that it contains.
Number of Search Results in a Cluster
The number displayed next to a cluster is the number of unique search results that a cluster contains.
Expanding the List of Clusters
When a list of clusters is especially long, only the beginning of the list is displayed. To show the next segment of the list, click the "more" link.
Accessing the Results
Link to a Search Result
Clicking on the title of a search result will open the result page in the full window, replacing the Dr Socrates interface.
Opening the Result Page in a New Window
Clicking the new window link opens the result page in a new browser window.
Displaying Cached Results
If a cached version of the page is available for this result, clicking the cache link opens the cached version of the page in the full window, replacing the Dr Socrates interface.
Previewing the Result Page
Clicking the preview link displays a preview of the result page. Once a preview is displayed, click close preview to eliminate the preview.
Identifying the Clusters for a Result
Clicking the clusters link highlights all of the clusters in which this particular search result occurs.
The URL of a Result
The URL of a search result is listed in the footer of the search result.
Finding the Source of a Result
A list of the search engines which returned this search result is displayed next to the URL.
