- Topic search
- Title search
- Author Search
- Publication Search

1.Topic search is the default search option in Web of Science you can use an to search for a topic. So for example if you wanted to search for "romans in briton" you would type "Romans* briton" into the search bar, the asterisk tells the database what you're looking for.

2. Title search: use this search function to search for articles based on title, you can use this for finding articles you either know the title of, or that you know keywords for.
3. Author search: use this function to search articles by a specific author that you know the name of
4. Publication search: use this search function to search for journals either that you know of, or that contain keywords in their name