Hein-On-Line Full Text Word and Phrase Search Help

Full-Text Word and Phrase Search

Quick Steps To Full-Text Search:

Enter search words in search field with quotes for phrase search or without quotes for word search.
Check box for word search if you want to match all words; otherwise uncheck the box.
Select a year range.
Select to search 'all journals' or one or more journals.
Select order of final search results.
Press the 'Search' button.
Once first-level Search Results appear, select specific volume to search.
From second-level Search Results, select specific page to view.

Extended Full-Text Search Help
The Full-Text Word and Phrase Search allows you to perform full-text word and phrase searches on volumes in the Hein-On-Line collection. Searches are performed against the uncorrected OCR text that was generated from the page images for each volume. The Full-Text Word and Phrase Search Dialog Screen is used to perform these types of searches.

The components included on this window are as follows:

Enter your search words here:
Extended Search Help
Enclosing search words in quotation marks (") will perform a Phrase Search; otherwise a Word Search will be performed.

Searches are not case-sensitive.

This component is used to enter your search argument.
You can do a word search by entering one or more words in this field with no quotations.
You must enclose the entire search argument in quotation marks in order to perform a phrase search.
Words typed in the search argument are not case sensitive.
Only words and quotation marks are allowed in this field. Word “connectors” are not allowed.

Check here to have Word Search match all search terms

This component is only effective if you are doing a Word Search. A Word Search is performed by not placing quotation marks around the search argument.
Checking this box will cause only pages which contain all words in the search argument to appear on the Search Results List.

Limit results to the following date range:
Year since (Four digit year; use blanks for "from inception")
Year through (Four digit year; use blanks for "to most recent holding")

Use this component to limit your Full-Text Word or Phrase Search to certain years.
Four digit years must be used (i.e., 1990).
A blank “Year since” field will perform a search for material starting with the earliest year in the collection.
A blank “Year through” field will perform a search for material through the latest year in the collection.
The default date range is “1990 to most recent holding”.

Select one or more journal titles to search.
Hold down the "Ctrl" key when clicking to select multiple titles on most browsers.
Limit the number of titles selected for best performance.

This component allows you to perform your search on all journals in the collection or one or more titles in the collection. Use the pull-down to select either 'all journals' or the citation of the specific journal title you wish to search.

Sort final results by:

This component allows you to select the order of the Search Results List. You can choose to view the list either Alphabetically by Journal Title or by Date.

Click on this component to perform the search.

Phrase Search Help

To do a phrase search you must enclose the phrase you are searching in quotation marks. A phrase search will find all pages in the collection that contain the phrase.

Phrase Search Example:

“flying fish”

Word Search Help

To do a word search enter one or more words in the search input field without quotation marks. You can control whether the search is performed for all of the words or any of the words by checking the box next to

Check here to have Word Search match all search terms
If you check this box, your word search will find only those pages in the collection that contain all of the words in the search argument.

Research Results List Help

Two-level Search Results lists are used for Word and Phrase Searches.

The first Search Results list will appear after you have formulated a Full-Text Word or Phrase Search and pressed the “Search” button. This Search Results list will contain a list of all volumes with at least one page that matches your search criteria and will appear in either Date or Title order, depending on the order selection you made on the Search Dialog screen. The Search Results will also display feedback as the search is being performed. This feedback will include a restatement of your search, the number of volumes containing each of your search terms and an estimated search time. At the end of the First-level Search Results list, the total number of hits will be displayed.

To look at any of the volumes listed on the search results list just click the link of the journal or to preserve your original results list do a right-click on the journal link and choose "Open in a New Window." Once you do either of these options, you will be presented with a volume search results list with every page in the volume that contain the word(s) or phrase for which you are searching. Each item on the Search Results list will contain a link to view the page and show the context where the word(s) or phrase were found on the page. If the word(s) or phrase appear on the page more than once, the context for each occurrence will be shown in the Search Results list.

For a Phrase Search, the Search Results list will contain every page in the volume that has the phrase at least once. Search Results lists for phrase searches are presented in page number order.

For a Word Search, the Search Results list will contain every page in the volume that has any or all of the words in the search argument. The Search Results list will be ordered by the total number of words on the page that match the search argument from highest to lowest denoted by 'Score'. Within each 'Score', the pages will be listed in page number order.