Help on the Adlib
Internet Server Searchsystem
In the form, different fields can be filled.
After you have clicked 'Submit form', a search will be performed for records.
The order in which you fill the fields is not important.
Listings
By clicking on one of the buttons on the right of the searchform you'll
be able to search through a listing of possible names which can be found in the
catalogus. It's possible to search on authors, organisations or subjects. Fill
in your searchkey in the field on the left of the button and click on the
button. The result will be shown in the frame of the helptext. The number behind
the term is the number of records which posses that term. Click on it and you'll
get the records.
Field
When you want to search more than one value in a field, select the field in
serveral lines and enter the values you want to find. You can set the operator, truncation
and the boolean for all those fields separately
Truncation
Using truncation (by checking the checkbox) any string of characters (or no
characters at all) is allowed after the ones you've already entered. This means
that the search will include any word starting with the characters you've
entered and the string of characters itself.
An example:
Entering 'we' in the title field will result in every record that has a
word starting with 'we' (such as 'we', 'weer' and 'weerlicht') in the
title.
Truncation only works in combination with the '=' operator. Together with the
other operators the only value you've entered is used.
Boolean
When you want to search on several fields, you can combine those fields using
'and', 'or' and 'not'.
Title
In this field you can enter words from the title. When you enter more than
one word, all records will be retrieved that have those words in no
particular order in the title.
Author
In this field you can enter the (sur-)name of the author you want to find (e.g.
'wolkers' or 'wolkers, jan').
Organisation
Organisation works like author. An example from our
database would be 'FNV'.
Subjects
The order of the words is not important. An example from our database: 'com',
which will find 'communisme', but also 'computer'.
Freetext
In this field you can enter words from various fields to look for. The order
of the words is not important.
Publisher
Here you can enter the name of the publisher that the search engine should look
for.
Year
Here you can enter the year of publishing, e.g. '1990' or '198'.
Adlib Internet Server is a product of Adlib
Information Systems.