Literature Record View

The Thomson Innovation Record View integrates data from numerous sources.  The terms of your subscription determine which of these data sources are available on your Record View.

This chapter addresses the following topics.

Open a literature record from either a result set or a work file.  The literature Record View displays.

Finding Your Way Around

The literature Record View screen is shown below.

Literature Record View Features

  1. The Jump To menu

  2. The Record View Tool Bar

  3. The breadcrumb navigation tool

  4. Literature Record View Help link

  5. The Close Record Viewer link

  6. The Hide Highlighting Panel button

  7. The Record View Footer

  8. The Highlighting panel

  9. The Record panel

The Record View Tool Bar

Add to Work File

Use the Add to Work File panel, shown below, to specify the existing work file to which you wish to add the record.  See the Work Files chapter for details.

Add to Marked List

Click to add the selected records to your marked list.

See the Marked List chapter for details.

Highlight

Open the Highlighting panel to add or modify term highlighting in your record.

See the Highlighting chapter for details.

The Highlighting panel is shown below.

 

Print

Press Print to generate a printer-friendly version of the record.

A printer-friendly version is shown below.

 

Press Print on the printer-friendly version to select a printer.  Press Close to close without saving.

Note that "Print background colors and images" must be enabled in your browser preferences in order for highlighting to print.  See your browser documentation for details.

The Jump To Menu

Use the Jump To menu to navigate quickly to specific sections of a record.

Available destinations include

The Hide Highlighting Button

The Highlighting panel is a visual guide to your highlighting results.  If you have disabled highlighting in your Preferences, both the Highlighting panel and the Hide Highlighting Panel button are hidden.  See the Highlighting chapter for details.

The Hide Highlighting button is visible when the Highlighting is displayed.  Press it to hide the Highlighting panel, and provide more screen width for the record.

Below, the Record View is shown with the Highlighting panel hidden.

 

The Show Highlighting button is visible when the Highlighting panel is hidden.  Press it to display the Highlighting panel.

The Record Panel

The record panel is shown below.

 

Click the question mark  to the left of any field name to get help for that particular field.

Some of the terms in the record panel are presented as hyperlinks.  Use these links to gain instant access to related search results.  Links in the Literature Record are listed below.

See the Literature Fields chapter for a complete description of all fields.

The Biblio Section

Links in the Company section include

The Other Document Information Section

Links in the Industry section include

The Highlighting Panel

The highlighting panel is a graphic representation of the number of occurrences of your search terms in the record, and their location in the record.

The highlighting panel is collapsed by default.  Press the Show Highlighting Panel button on the record view screen to expand it.  Press it again to collapse it.

Note that "Print background colors and images" must be enabled in your browser preferences in order for highlighting to print.  See your browser documentation for details.

See the Highlighting chapter for detailed information.