Dialog@CARL includes 300 multidisciplinary databases covering journals, directories, current events and academic sources. It also includes full-text for some 100 newspapers and journals.

The Brooklyn College Library alphabetical list of research resources links directly to individual, selected databases in the Dialog@CARL collection as well as to the selection screen for all the databases. So, if you select Dialog@CARL from the list, you will see this screen:

From this screen, click on Search. You will now be shown the scroll window with all the databases available through Dialog@CARL.

You can click and highlight up to six titles on the list. When selecting more than one title, hold the control key down as you make each choice. Then click on "Select these databases now." The search screen that follows is the screen you will get whether you have chosen from the database list or gone directly to one of the Dialog databases from the Brooklyn College Library home page title list. The search screen will identify the database(s) you have chosen. At this point you can either

1. Change your database,
2. Click for more information about your database, or
3. Enter a search

After you enter your search, you will get separate results listings for each database you have chosen. Different fields are likely to be searched in different databases. The search engine may look in the title, subject or abstract field or any combination of the three.

You can review your results from only one database at a time. Duplicate entries that appear in multiple databases will not be removed. If you have searched multiple fields of a database, you can click on a group of matches, mark off only the matches you want and Retrieve Selected Results, or Retrieve All Matches.

At this point the left hand navigation bar allows you to Review Search History. You can combine the line numbers of searches to execute new searches or combine numbers and search terms.

Your title list gives brief citations and displays ten per screen. You may look at the full record for each citation one at a time by clicking on the title link, check off individual citations to display only the full records you need, or create a new list of your own built up from multiple searches (the Personal List Manager). The Personal List Manager will only retain citations saved during one logon session.

Full Record entries include various index fields, depending on the database you have searched.

Full text is also displayed on the Full Record screen if it is included in the database.

The Full Record screen left navigation bar also allows you to save the record to a disk, e-mail the record, or print the record. Each selection brings up a new screen for the chosen operation.