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Electric Library - search hints
Electric
Library Australasia.
An international coverage of newspapers and journals, its provision
of the full text of Australian national, state and regional newspapers
makes it a useful source of local comment on the built environment.
SEARCHING
Search modes
Natural Language is the default
search mode, where you type a phrase or sentence in the Search bar to describe
your topic. Natural Language has
an inbuilt algorithm which "interprets" search terms to find plurals and
alternative spellings. This search mode is useful for finding the
text of press reports where you know the heading of the article, eg.
reuse of heritage buildings
in adelaide
For more control over your search, select Boolean
search, put the cursor in the search bar and type in a search strategy
for your topic using -
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AND between words to indicate
that each word should be found in the record;
-
"quotation marks" to indicate that the words should appear as a phrase;
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OR between words where you can think
of alternative terms for a concept. It is important to enclose these search
words in brackets.
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an astersik * as a truncation symbol,
to pick up one or more different characters within or at the end of a word;
-
a question mark ?, to replace a single character within or at the end of
a word.
Read your search sentence carefully, make sure that it says what
you mean, eg.
(reuse OR adaptation)
AND "heritage building*" AND adelaide
Sources
The default is from all sources, with Recent
material only from Newspapers.
In addition to newspapers, Electric Library takes material
from journals, books, pictures, maps,
television and radio news service transcripts.
Decide if you want references from one source only, such as Newspapers,
or any of the sources. To specify a particular source, first click
on Select none to remove
all settings, then click in the box for each service to be searched.
IMPORTANT NOTE - if you are searching Newspapers
as a source, the default is Recent
material, pull down to change this to All.
DISPLAY
The default display is up to 60
records, arranged by a relevance factor. Use select
number of results from 30, 60,
90, 120, 150 to change the default. , then click on
Search.
At the display of results, click
on a Title to retrieve the full text of the article. ANOTHER IMPORTANT
NOTE! Remember that the date is presented in the American
pattern, thus 03/10/2002
is the 10th March 2002.
OUTPUT
Scroll down to OPTIONS where
you can print or e-mail
the text of the article. To
E-mail Document
Enter an e-mail address and click send! Click on Return
to results to go back to your answer set or select New
search.
MODIFYING A SEARCH strategy for more relevant results
Australian material
To restrict a search to Australasian newspapers and journals,
scroll down and click on the radio button for Australasian
Content Only.
Alternatively, you can restrict your search to a particular title by
typing the title, eg. Advertiser in the Publication
bar.
Time
To trace comment at a particular time, select a Publication
Date Range: remembering that the format follows the American pattern,
month/day/year, eg.
Dates between
12/01/2001 and 01/31/2002
If you don't find what you need, please come and see me, Kay
Leverett, Architecture Librarian, or contact me by phone (8303 4659)
or email: kay.leverett@adelaide.edu.au
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