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 ===== 1. Searching =====
+{{ :help:istc:search_2.png?642x61 | ISTC search box}}
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+You may perform a free-text search just by entering a search term into the search box and hitting "search". Your search will return all the records that contain the given search term in any of their fields.
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+{{ :help:istc:search_3.png?642x61 | ISTC search box}}
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+To get more precise search results, you can combine any number of search terms or even use logical (boolean) operators.
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+{{ :help:istc:search_4.png?642x61 | ISTC search box}}
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+While your search terms could be upper or lower case (or any combination thereof), the logical operators must always be written in capitals.
+Truncation and wildcards can be used within and at the end of a search term: an asterisk (*****) replaces an arbitrary number of characters, a question mark (**?**) replaces exactly one character. If you want to search for two or more words that appear next to each other in a specific order (phrase search), enclose your search term in quotation marks (**"**).
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+{{ :help:istc:search_5.png?642x61 |ISTC search box}}
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+The search engine also supports [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression|regular expressions]] as search terms. The syntax of regular expressions might be a bit complex and difficult to learn, but once mastered, it enables you to formulate rather elaborate queries.
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+{{ :help:istc:search_7.png?642x61 |ISTC search box}}
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+You may also search for words that are similar to your search term by adding a tilde (**~**). The similarity measure ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance|Damerau-Levenshtein distance]]) defaults to 2. You may sepificy a similarity measure by adding it after the tilde (e.g. ''ethica~1'').
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+{{ :help:istc:search_6.png?642x61 |ISTC search box}}
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+In order to find records where your search term appears only in a certain field, add the field's name to the search term followed by a colon. Please note that there must be no blank before or after the colon. If your search term consists of multiple parts, enclose them by parentheses, e.g. ''title:(ethica nicomachum)'' or ''title:(ethica OR poetica)''. When searching for phrases, use quotation marks: ''title:"ethica ad nicomachum"''. In the ISTC the following fields are available for searching:
+^author:  | The author of publication (Marc field 100)|
+^date:  | The year of publication (Marc field 008)((You can search for date ranges ''date:[1480 TO 1490]]'' or for books that have been printed before ''date:<1480'' or after ''date:>1480'' a certain year))|
+^format:  | The bibliographic format (Marc field 300)|
+^id:  | The ISTC id (Marc field 001)|
+^heading:  | The uniform heading used when the publication has no author (Marc field 130) |
+^language:  | The language of the publication (Marc field 008). This is a 3 letter code from the [[https://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/|Marc Code List for Languages]] |
+^location:  | Name of the holding institution and country where the holding institution is located (2-letter code)|
+^place:  | Place of printing/publication as given in the imprint statement (Marc field 260) as well as the modern name form and common variants |
+^printer:  | Printer/publisher as given in the imprint statement (Marc field 260)|
+^reference:  | Bibliographic reference (Marc field 510)|
+^shelfmark:  | British Library shelfmark|
+^title:  | Title of the publication (Marc field 245)|
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+For more elaborate search options see also the full documentation of the  [[https://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html|Apache Lucene Query Syntax]].
 ===== 2. Customize your Result Display =====
+{{ :help:istc:search_8.png | Custom Search}}
+The appearance of your search results can be changed by selecting **Custom Search** from the **More...** menu. You may select or unselect the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search|facets]] that are displayed with the result set, change the number of hits that are shown per page or apply a different sorting method.
 ===== 3. Using Alphabetical Browse Lists =====
 ===== 4. Booksmarks and Search History =====

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