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Help - Study Units
- How can I use the Study Units page
- How does the Study Units search work?
- How do I use select from a list?
- How can I get a more precise search result?
- How do I browse Study Units?
How can I use the Study Units page
You can use the Study Units page to search Study Units using a variety of options; alternatively, you can use the list of topics below the search form to browse to Study Units on a particular historical theme.
You can also open the Key Events Timeline from the Study Units page. This is a way to browse to Study Units selected for their relevance to the key historical events listed on the timeline.
How does the Study Units search work?
The Study Units search form allows you to precisely search the Study Unit content in History Study Centre.
To conduct a search, type your search terms (individual words or phrases) into the keyword search box. Optionally, you may narrow the search by Study Unit title, or Subject.
Any records containing the words you typed will be displayed on the Results page.
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 do I use select from a list?
You can use the select from a list feature to browse all of the subject headings indexed by the Subject search field. This can be helpful if you want to check the correct form to use for a subject heading.
To browse a list of subject headings, click on the select from a list link next the Subject field. Use the show links on the Subject List page to display the subject headings below one of the main headings. Click the relevant checkboxes to make a selection and click Select to transfer them back to the search form.
Note that you can use the Clear selections button to deselect all existing selections.
How can I get a more precise search result?
The Study Units search form allows you to restrict or expand the search by using Boolean and proximity operators, expand the search to include related meanings and alternative spellings, or search for variations on search terms using truncation, and specify exact matching. Please see the Search Tips help page for more information on complex searching.
How do I browse Study Units?
You can use the Browse Study Units feature below the search form to navigate to Study Units on a particular topic. Click one of the main topic areas to view a list of sub-topics on the Browse Study Units page. The breadcrumb trail above the topic list indicates the current level in the hierarchy and allows you to go to a broader topic level. Study Unit page links are distinguished from topic level links by an icon. Click on the title of a Study Unit to open it. Click Back to Browse Study Units to return to the relevant topic level.
You can also use the "See also" links to view any releated Study Units or topic levels.