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| ====== Brief Introduction to Searching the ISTC ====== | ====== Brief Introduction to Searching the ISTC ====== |
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| To search the ISTC, you can still enter any number of keywords into the search box. This will search all indexes. To improve the accuracy of your search results, you can enter the terms below into the single search box and combine as many as you like with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). When combining fields, each field name has to be followed by a colon and the search term without a space, as in the examples below. | To search the ISTC, you can still enter any number of keywords into the search box. This will search all indexes. To improve the accuracy of your search results, you can enter the terms below into the single search box and combine as many as you like with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). When combining fields, each field name has to be followed by a colon and the search term without a space, as in the examples below. |
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| ^ **id:** | The ISTC number (Marc field 001). | | ^ **id:** | The ISTC number (Marc field 001). | |
| ^ **author:** | The author of a publication (Marc field 100), e.g. //author:aesopus//. | | ^ **author:** | The author of a publication (Marc field 100), e.g. //author:aesopus//. | |
| ^ **heading:** | The uniform heading when a publication has no author (Marc field 130). | | ^ **heading:** | The uniform heading when a publication has no author (Marc field 130). | |
| ^ **title:** | The title of a publication (Marc field 245). | | ^ **title:** | The title of a publication (Marc field 245). | |
| ^ **place:** | The place as given in the imprint statement (Marc field 260) as well as the modern name form and common variants. \\ To search for editions printed in a certain country, use the two letter iso code (e.g. ''place:nl'' for all editions printed in the Netherlands) | | ^ **place:** | The place of printing or publication as given in the imprint statement (Marc field 260) as well as the modern name form and common variants.\\ For countries, search with a two-letter code from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Current_codes|ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code list]]\\ Some frequently used codes are:\\ BE Belgium\\ DE Germany\\ FR France\\ IT Italy\\ GB United Kingdom\\ NL The Netherlands\\ US United States | |
| ^ **printer:** | The printer or publisher as given in the imprint statement (Marc field 260). | | ^ **printer:** | The printer or publisher as given in the imprint statement (Marc field 260). | |
| ^ **date:** | The year of publication (Marc field 008). | | ^ **date:** | The year of publication (Marc field 008). | |
| ^ **language:** | The language of a publication (Marc field 008). This is a three-letter code from the [[http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/|Marc Code List for Languages]]. | | ^ **language:** | The language of a publication (Marc field 008). This is a three-letter code from the [[http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/|Marc Code List for Languages]]. | |
| ^ **format:** | The bibliographic format (Marc field 300). | | ^ **format:** | The bibliographic format (Marc field 300). | |
| ^ **reference:** | The bibliographical reference (Marc field 510). | | ^ **reference:** | The bibliographical reference (Marc field 510). | |
| ^ **location:** | The name of a holding institution and the country where it is located. This is a two-letter code from the [[https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search|ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code list]] | | ^ **location:** | The name of a holding institution and the country where it is located. For countries, this is a two-letter code from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Current_codes|ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code list]]\\ Some frequently used codes are:\\ BE Belgium\\ DE Germany\\ FR France\\ IT Italy\\ GB United Kingdom\\ NL The Netherlands\\ US Unite | |
| ^ **location_count:** | The number of institutions which hold a copy of the described edition. | | ^ **location_count:** | The number of institutions which hold a copy of the described edition. | |
| ^ **shelfmark:** | The British Library shelfmark. | | ^ **shelfmark:** | The British Library shelfmark. | |
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| ===== For example: ===== | ===== For example: ===== |
| //**place:venice NOT location:it**// \\ | //**place:venice NOT location:it**// \\ |
| This will find books printed in Venice which are not held in Italian libraries. | This will find books printed in Venice which are not held in Italian libraries. |
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| //**place:be AND location:ch**//\\ | |
| This will find books printed in (today's) Belgium which are held in Swiss libraires. | |
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| //**title:(ethica OR poetica)**// \\ | //**title:(ethica OR poetica)**// \\ |
