Annual Reviews Database
For doing research in science and the social sciences, the database, Annual Reviews, can be a useful research resource. This database indexes review literature in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. The date coverage in Annual Reviews' indexes varies by individual journal title, with a starting date ranging from 1932 to the 1980's. Indexed articles are available in full text format from the mid-1990's for most subscribed titles. Some of the Annual Review journals that UWM subscribes to electronically are: Anthropology, Biochemistry, Fluid Mechanics, Immunuology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Public Health. The UWM Libraries do not pay for online or print access to all the annual reviews indexed nor to all dates indexed. Some titles may be available full text online through an alternative source. To check for online access to Annual Reviews that UWM does not directly subscribe to but may be available from another database, use the Electronic Journals: Citation Linker, from the homepage.
BROWSING
To browse individual titles in the Annual Reviews database, click on the “Browse” link. Click on the title of interest under the “Biomedical,” “Physical,” or the “Social Sciences” headings. Then select the year and issue desired from the list. The Annual Reviews database provides citations and abstracts for all titles indexed, and many full text articles are available online. Access to full text is available in the journals to which UWM Libraries subscribe. UWM Libraries' users have partial or more full text access to the titles marked with a check. 
SUBJECT SEARCHING
QUICK SEARCH:
| A quick search box is available on most pages. To get the quick search box, choose and click on an individual title from the Annual Reviews Suites. Enter a word or phrase in the box provided. Search only the selected series by leaving “This Series” marked, or click on “All Series” to search the entire series. Results are displayed by relevancy to the search criteria. |  |
ADVANCED SEARCH:
The Advanced Search option allows for searching in specific fields: words anywhere, article title, image/table captions, or by author and/or year. Search across more than one field at a time using the Boolean operators in the drop-down menus. Restrict the search by date by setting years and decades using the drop-down menus provided.
The results will display on the next screen. Records appear with the author(s), title, brief abstract, and the annual review title and issue number/date for each article. There are check marks adjacent the citations for which the full text is available to UWM users.
Example citation:
From within the entry, there may be a link to add the citation to the "favorites list" There may be a bibliography of citing resources. Many of these citing articles are available full text online. There may also be links to related articles from with the Annual Reviews database.
The full text of many articles includes the bibliography. From the HTML version of the full text, FindIt links to the UWM Libraries holdings may be available. Direct links to the UWM Libraries holdings from the PDF version of the full text is not available. From the HTML version, the bibliography may also be downloaded to a reference management software program, such as RefWorks, EndNote, or ProCite.
SEARCH HISTORY
During each search session, Annual Reviews maintains a history of the searches performed. To view this, go to the "Previous and Saved Searches" link and select “Session Search History”.
To save searches from one session to the next, register online with Annual Reviews and establish a username and password. Once logged in, save search criteria by entering an appropriate name and using the “save” button in the “save search” area of the results page. To find the saved searches, log on and look at the saved searches displayed in the “run a saved search” box at the bottom of the simple search page. To re-run a search, select a saved search by selecting the search name. To delete any saved searches, select the search name and then select the “delete” button.
See basic guidelines for setting up an email search alert in the RIS Library Guide Email Alert Services.
PRINTING
- To print each page of the entire results list from a search, choose “file-print” from the web browser and click “ok.”
- To print a single citation, an abstract, or a full text article in HTML format, click on the article's title to display the document. After the document is displayed, choose “file-print” from the web browser and click “ok.” To print only selected page(s) of an article, use the print preview, then select the desired pages for printing.
- To print a full text article from a PDF file, click on “PDF” under the article's title to display the document. After the PDF document is displayed, click on the printer icon in the top-left corner of the framed document. To print only selected page(s) of an article, use the print preview, then select the desired pages for printing.
SAVING
- To save the results list from a search to a disk, use the web browser's “file-save as” function. Choose a:\drive from the drop-down menu labeled “save in” at the top of the page. Enter an appropriate file name in the “file name” box at the bottom of the page, and use the drop-down menu to choose the format to save in (html or text file). Then click “ok” to save.
- To save an abstract or a full text article in HTML format, click on the desired option under the article's title to display the document. After the document is displayed, use the web browser's “file-save as” function. Choose a:\drive from the drop-down menu labeled “save in” at the top of the page. Enter an appropriate file name in the “file name” box at the bottom of the page, and use the drop-down menu to choose the format preferrred (html or text file). Then click “ok” to save.
- To save a full text article in PDF, choose and click on “PDF” under the article's title. After the document is displayed, click on the disk icon in the top-left corner of the framed document. Choose a:\drive from the drop-down menu labeled “save in” at the top of the page. Enter an appropriate file name in the “file name” box at the bottom of the page. Then click “ok” to save. The document will be saved as a PDF file.
EXIT
To exit the Annual Reviews database, click on the home button on the web browser bar.
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