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===== 1. Searching ===== | ===== 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: |
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| ^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]]. |
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===== 2. Customize your Result Display ===== | ===== 2. Customize your Result Display ===== |
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| {{ :help:istc:search_8.png?742x300 | Custom Search}} |
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| 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. |
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| {{ :help:istc:search_9.png?742x140 | Custom Search}} |
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| When selecting ''custom'' from the menu **display mode**, you can choose the fields of a record that should be displayed. This allows you also to customize the download of your result set in Excel/CSV. |
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===== 3. Using Alphabetical Browse Lists ===== | ===== 3. Using Alphabetical Browse Lists ===== |
===== 4. Booksmarks and Search History ===== | ===== 4. Booksmarks and Search History ===== |