Scope

• Begin (b) is the first command you use in the search process.
• It tells the computer that you want to search in one or more specific databases.
  • Examples:
    • b 275
    • b health
    • b n1-n7, n14

Usage

• You use the b command to connect
  • One or more databases
  • One or more OneSearch categories (Collections of databases).
  • Databases that you identified as a result of a DialIndex search.

  Field	Format	Examples, Notes
  Begin 1 database	b <db#>	b 275
  Begin multiple DBs	b <db#>	b 88,275
  Begin OneSearch Category	b <category>	b allreference
  Begin databases selected as a result of the ranking of a DialIndex search	b <n#,n#, n#-n#,..>	b n1-n8,n14,n27

   

• You limit your search of the databases to the Current Year or to the Current and Recent Years

  Limit	Format	Examples, Notes
  Current Year	current	b 275 current
  Current plus # years back	current#	b 275 current5