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Help - Advanced Search
- How does Advanced Search work?
- How do I limit my search to particular resources?
- How can I get a more precise search result?
- How do I start a new search?
How does Advanced Search work?
The Advanced Search page allows you to precisely search all of the content contained in History Study Center.
To conduct a search, type your search terms (individual words or phrases) into the keyword search box. Optionally, you may narrow the search by item title, limit it to material of a biographical nature or particular resources e.g. Chadwyck-Healey Atlas of World History.
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 limit my search to particular resources?
You may select one or more resources on the Advanced Search page from the expandable list; all resources are shown as selected by default. To de-select a resource click the relevant checkbox. To deselect all resources listed under a heading click the checkbox for the relevant heading. Click the relevant Show/Hide link to show/hide a list of individual resources for the following content types: Historical Documents, Maps & Reference, or Journals.
You can use the radio buttons below the Journals content type to exclude book reviews from your search or restrict your search to book reviews only.
Note that if you de-select all resources, History Study Center will find no results for your search terms.
Note: Keyboard users can use their tab key to move from field to field, and spacebar to select & de-select categories.
How can I get a more precise search result?
The Advanced Search page 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 start a new search?
From the Advanced Search page:
- Click the clear search link located after the resource options.
From the 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.