When the system does the search you requested, it will first retrieve the citations to the articles it found. The citations include the author's names, the title of the article, and the specific journal the article is located in. The first 25 articles are referenced here; remember: you can use Netscape's "Find" to help you sort through them.

Link 1: SGML

This link goes to a version of the full text of the article which is marked up in "Standardized Markup Language." SGML requires a viewer other than Netscape called Panorama, (which can be downloaded onto PCs for free). The article will not appear in the exact same format as the printed version, but as a a hypertext version of the article with links to and from endnotes, figures, references, to and from the text of the article.

The SGML viewer software, SoftQuad's Panorama, works much like web browsers such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. For example, it has its own "find" function, which can be useful in combing through the text of the article, and it can also make bookmarks. In the articles contributed by IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASAE) and the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE), Panorama will offer an outline view of the article, which allows you to link from the headers in the article to the text of that section. Panorama allows users to print articles, or even parts of articles such as figures or tables or the list of references. However, if the PDF version of the article is available (see below), we recommend you print this version as Panorama will not always display mathematics correctly.

In Panorama, links are USUALLY highlighted in blue. For example, the blue arrow following "NOTES" is a link to the endnotes at the end of the article. Blue numbers after author names and figure/table captions indicate a link to the author's affiliation or the figure or table. PLEASE NOTE that in some of the articles published by ASCE, underlined sentences link to the figures, tables and references. In some IEEE CS articles, the links are underlined but not blue.

You can link back into the text where the article, table, or figure was referenced by clicking on the "bulls-eye" to the left of the reference, table, figure, etc.

If there is more than one place in the article where the figure, table or article was referenced, a box will pop up and you will have to choose which "target" to return to. Unfortunately, there isn't an easy way to decipher which reference is which. Highlight one of the targets and select "ok". The targets are listed in the order they appear in the article, so that the first target in the figure below is a link to the first time the reference was used in the article.

Panorama give access to figures at the end of each article, just before the references section. They are listed by their captions, and the two icons mentioned just above will take the user either to the figure itself (the globe) or to the place in the article where the figure was mentioned (bull's eye).

When Panorama is "closed," not all the windows will close- particularly those containing figures that were opened. When those remain, simply click on the "x" in the upper right hand corner of the window.

While using DeLIver, do not "quit" either their web browser or Panorama. If you "quit" the web browser, the system will no longer work. Panorama needs a web browser to help it function.

Link 2: Portable Document Format

This link will take you to a version of the full article which requires Adobe Acrobat (which can be downloaded for free to any platform (PC, Apple, Unix) to see. Sixty percent of the articles are available in PDF. The PDF files are provided by the publishers as available. PDFs are actual images of the text and figures of the articles as they appear in print. This means that while the format of the article looks like the printed version, there is limited functionality - you can't search the parts of the article or for keywords.

Adobe Acrobat Reader will allow the user to "zoom" in and out of the view of the article so that both the full page or even facing pages of the article can be seen, while at the same time one can zoom in and actually read the article on the screen. Acrobat will also display figures and tables in graphic format. Acrobat will also allow the user print the article, and in fact, we recommend that if there are any equations in the article users should print the PDF version. Panorama (see above) does not always display and print equations correctly.

While using DeLIver, the user should not "quit" either their web browser or Acrobat. If you "quits" the web browser, the system will no longer work. Acrobat needs a web browser to help it function.

Link 3: Matches in Context

This link will bring up a list of the word(s) or name(s) searched on in their context. The system retrieves a portion of the line from the article in which the word, phrase, or name appears. For this reason, it will most often display sentence fragments containing the searched word(s) or name(s). This can quickly give you an indication as to whether the article will be useful to retrieve in its entirety via Acrobat or Panorama.

Link 4: extended citation

This link goes to further information about the article in question. This "further information" includes the article citation, the article abstract, the reference section of the article, and a list of the captions of the figures or tables in the article. The figures or table captions are linked to the figures or tables themselves; by clicking on them, Acrobat will display the figures or tables for all articles except those by ASCE. The figures in the ASCE articles are in tiff format and need a tiff viewer. We recommend CPC View, which costs $10.00 but is an actual plugin. LView Pro, and Wang Image Viewer are both free shareware and can be set up as helper applications. Wang Image Viewer is being shipped free with newer versions of Windows 95.

Icons on the Search Results Page:

In addition, at the top of the page, "Start Over" will take you back to a new, blank search form where you can begin a new search.

"Go Back," however, will bring you back to the search page with the terms you just filled in so that you can modify what you have done without typing everything over again.