• The default is to the Advanced Search screen. There is only one line of search, so for more complex searches you will need to use Nesting (see Searching in a database for information on nesting searches), or run your searches individually and then combine them.

• There are other Search Modes available. With Basic Search, you can simply type in exactly what you are searching for, and the results will be sorted by Relevance.
   
• The default is to a phrase search so typing in oral surgery will search for that as a phrase.
   
• There are many limiters available. Some of these you can apply at the time of your search, others - Additional Limits - can only be applied to a search you have already run.

• MEDLINE is primarily an index, but does have some links to full-text. For results where there is no full-text link, click on the Find it at CSU link to search for the full article in other CSU Library databases.
   
• Searches are recorded in the Search History panel which is above the Search panel. If you can't see all of your previous searches, click on the Expand button to the right of the Search history panel.

In the Medline database, try searching for the keywords – "cleft lip" AND (feature* OR develop*) entered as in the example below (quotations marks "" are used to create a phrase search, AND is a boolean operator, the brackets () are a nesting tool used to create a logical search string & the asterisk * is a truncation symbol used to expand a search, see the Search Strategies page for more information).

Alternatively, you could try searching for the search terms or key concepts you identified from your own assignment topic.

Note: You may need to sign in first with your CSU username and password

• Look at the HTML and PDF links to access the full text of the article. Hint: as Medline is primarily an index you will not find many full text links, follow the  link(s) to find out if you can access the article in another database.