Ng Kok Koon ~ Head, Digital Services
InfoGate offers you a new gateway with integrated and seamless access to our electronic resources.
Search Multiple Resources
Through a single interface, you are able to perform a simultaneous search
on resources subscribed by NUS Libraries like electronic databases, electronic
journals and our library catalogue LINC.
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Free Text Search
Select a database category, type some keywords in the box next to Free Text and
click on Search. InfoGate searches simultaneously the contents of the common
fields like title, author, and subject from the selected databases. For
multi-disciplinary topics, InfoGate is useful for a preliminary search to
determine which databases would be the most useful. Next, search each relevant
database directly to get in-depth results and to do special searches like
citation reference search in Web of Science or to set limits in Biosis Previews.
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Response Time
Expect a longer response time when using InfoGate as searching
multiple databases is slower than searching just one database.
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Search Results
There are limits set on the number of citations retrieved from each database and
results are sorted by relevance as determined by the system. Hence you only view
the “tip of the results iceberg” in InfoGate. You need to search the specific
database to get the complete results.
Bridge to Full Text Articles
From a citation retrieved from InfoGate, the system analyzes the citation
information and provides a link to the article for the full text subscribed by
NUS Libraries.
Also from a specific database like Web of Science and Expanded Academic ASAP
you have the 
icon to lead you to additional
links for full text.
Give InfoGate a try and enjoy the seamless access to full text which will save you time and effort.
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Created on 3/11/2003 © National University of Singapore Libraries
