Step by Step with OmniFile Full Text (formerly Science Full Text Select and also formerly WilsonWeb)
OmniFile Full Text Select is a mostly full text database which covers: science, current events, the humanities, and more. It is a valuable supplement and sometimes a good first choice due to its variety of well respected journals. Note: OmniFile Full Text Select starts with a multibox (Advanced Search) as its default. For many students, this means more flexibility and room.
- Before you begin, think carefully about your topic.
Most topics for college level papers consist of two main ideas. If your
topic does not have two ideas, then you may want to narrow it. An
example of a paper topic is: the health effects of cell phones.
- The main ideas in this topic are cell phones and health.
- When you put these ideas together in a way that OmniFile Full Text Select
understands them, your search statement becomes:
cell phones AND health. The
AND is not a word, but a logical operator that
tells the computer to look for all articles that deal with both health and cell phones. This
is how OmniFile Full Text Select sees your search. The overlap between the
circles is the result that you receive.
- To reach OmniFile Full Text Select via GALILEO
http://www.galileo.usg.edu,
click on Databases A-Z, a gold tab in the
bar near the top of GALILEO's screen. Click on O and then
choose OmniFile Full Text Select.
- Put one idea from your search statement on each of the lines of OmniFile Full Text Select's multibox search
form.
- Also check off the box next to both Full Text and Page Image (PDF)
to make sure that you receive only full text articles. Page Image yields
PDF files that require Adobe Acrobat, while full text files are just the text
without the orginal images or formatting.
- Click Start to launch your search.
- OmniFile Full Text Select presents articles in groups of twenty (20). To move
amomg the articles on each page scroll up and down. To move between pages
of articles, click the numbers in the Page bar
at the tops of the pages.
- To view a full text article, click its
blue and black striped Full Text icon. To view an entire Page Image
(PDF) article, click its 
icon with the
red Adobe logo on it. Both types of articles pop up in separate pages.
To print or email a full text article, choose the Print or Email icon from the Print/Email/Save icons at the top of the article window or top of the page. You can also save articles to My WilsonWeb by creating an account and clicking ot the Save to My WilsonWeb link. 
- To edit your search or try a new one, click the
Modify Search in the top left corner
the screen.
- To leave Science Select Full Text, close your browser or click the browser's Home icon.