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Help - Quick Search
- What is Quick search?
- How does the Quick search work?
- How can I get a more precise search result?
- How do I search by year?
- How do I start a new search?
What is Quick search?
The Quick search allows you to quickly search all of the content in History Study Centre or limit your search to a particular content type: Study Units, Historical Documents, Maps & Reference, Multimedia or Journals. A Quick Search box appears at the top of every page.
How does the Quick search work?
The Quick search feature allows you to type in a word or phrase, and will search through the respective datasets for all items that include those words. The search will respond by returning a list of results that relate to your search terms.
To conduct a search, type your search terms (individual words or phrases) into the Search for box. Choose an option from the dropdown box if you wish to restrict your search to a particular content type. When you have finished entering your search criteria, click Go!. Any records containing the words you typed will be displayed on the Results page.
You can combine search terms using Boolean and proximity searching, search for variations on search terms using truncation, and specify exact matching. Please see the Search Tips help page for more informaion.
Note: In the search box, all terms are treated by default as if they were combined using the Boolean operator AND. Certain common words and symbols such as a, an, he, if etc. are excluded from searches; searches on words such as these are likely to take a long time and produce a large number of possibly irrelevant matches. These words are known as stopwords; you can view a complete list of stopwords here.
How can I get a more precise search result?
For precise search results, try adding more keywords, or click the link following the Go! button to use the Advanced Search page.
How do I search by year?
Enter a 4-digit year into the Quick Search along with any words or phrases, and click Go!
How do I start a new search?
From any page:
- Type new search terms in the Quick search box.
From the Search Results page:
- Click the Refine Search link below the main navigation.
Refining a search will take you to the Advanced Search page. Your original search criteria will be displayed.