Database Platforms - Search Hints Comparison ChartSearch tips for database platforms:
(1) Engineering Village (combined Inspec and Compendex; NTIS technical reports, PaperChem)
(2) Web of Science platform (Web of Science Core Collection, Medline, BIOSIS, and more). Derwent Innovations Index (patents) does not use near/#
(3) Proquest (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, Advanced Technologies and Aerospace, Materials Science & Engineering, ABI/Inform, Military Database, GeoRef, Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, and many more)
(4) EBSCOhost (Applied Science and Technology and many more)
