"Web Search" is on the Biblioscape "Online Search" tab which is in the search panel on the right. To access the "Online Search", you can click the "Online Search" button in the toolbar, or the "Online Search" tab on the right. Click the "Web Search" tab at the top of the "Online Search" tab; you can now search some of the most popular citation databases on the Web.
| 1. | First, you need to select the search engine to use. Google Scholar is the most popular one. It covers many subject areas in both the hard and soft sciences. |
| 2. | Enter your search terms in the combo box at the top and press the Enter key to start searching. All your search terms are saved for future reuse. Click the down arrow of the combo box to display a list of previously used terms, select one, and click the Run button  to re-run the search. |
| 3. | Biblioscape will automatically capture the first batch of your search results and put them in the "Online Search" folder. |
| 4. | If the first batch doesn't contain the references you want, you can click the right arrow button  and download the next batch. If you are not familiar with the search engine, click the configure button  to display search tips. You can add extra conditions to fine tune your search. |
| 5. | The last step is to select the hits that you want to keep, and drag them to a references folder, then drop. This will move your search results from the "Online Search" folder to the folder where you want to keep them permanently, because the "Online Search" folder is only a temporary place to store your search hits. You may want to empty this folder by clicking the "Empty Online Search Folder" toolbar button once there are too many unwanted records. |
Note: If your search hits were published in recent years, it is likely its full text is available on the Web. Biblioscape will add an asterisk * symbol on the "PDF" tab if the reference's full text is available in PDF format. Click the "PDF*" tab to view the PDF file inside Biblioscape preview panel. If you want to display the PDF file in an external program, click the PDF button 
in the preview panel. If the full text is available as a Web page, or the full text purchasing information is available on a Web page, the "URL" tab will become "URL*". You can click the "URL*" tab to view the Web page inside Biblioscape. Click the Web button 
in the preview panel if you want to display the Web page in a Web browser instead.
Note:
| • | Google Scholar is a freely-accessible Web search engine. It provides a simple way to search scholarly literature. It indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. It is estimated that Google Scholar indexes over 500 million documents. In quality, quantity, and utility, Google Scholar compares favorably to all the commercial databases. |
| • | PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database for citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles. It is maintained by the US National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE currently has close to 20 million records from more than 5,000 journals published in more than 80 countries. |