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Expanded Academic ASAP Tutorial

Narrowing the Subject Search

After you click the Narrow button, you will see a screen listing the specific categories (or subdivisions) of the subject schizophrenia" similar to the one shown in the screen capture below. Selecting a subdivision focuses your search and lets you see a manageable set of citations for a subject that might lead to hundreds or even thousands of references.
For example lets click the View button under the subdivision care and treatment:

Subdivisions of the subject: 'Schizophrenia'

The search for subject schizophrenia, subdivision: care and treatment yielded a citation list of 331 articles. A summary of the search that produced the citation list is displayed near the top of the page. Below this is an indication of which citations are on the current page out of the total number (Citations 81 to 100 of 331). The navigation icons on either side let you go forward or backward one page at a time or jump to the first or last page.

citation list of search for the subject “schizophrenia”, subdivision: “care and treatment”

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