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How to find information in the {0} collection

help.findinginformation=There are {0} ways to find information in this collection: help.searchdesc=search for particular words that appear in the text by clicking the Search button help.browsedesc=browse documents by {0} by clicking the {0} button help.readingdocstitle=

How to read the documents

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You can tell when you have arrived at an individual book or document because its title, \ or an image of the front cover, appears at the top left of the page. In some collections, a table of contents appears, \ while in others (eg. when the paged image option is used) just the page number is shown, along with a box that allows you \ to select a new page and go forward and backward. In the table of contents, the current section heading is in bold face, \ and the table is expandable -- click on the folders to open or close them; click on the open book at the top to close it.

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Underneath is the text of the current section. When you have read through it, there are arrows at the \ bottom to take you on to the next section or back to the previous one.

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Below the title or front-cover image are some buttons. Click on EXPAND DOCUMENT to expand out the whole text \ of the current section, or book. If the document is large, this could take a long time and use a lot of memory! \ Click on EXPAND CONTENTS to expand out the whole table of contents so that you can see the titles of all \ chapters and subsections. Click on DETACH PAGE to make a new browser window for this document. \ (This is useful if you want to compare documents, or read two at once.)

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How to search for particular words

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From the search page, you make a query in these simple steps:

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  1. Specify what items you want to search
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  3. Say whether you want to search for all or just some of the words
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  5. Type in the words you want to search for
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  7. Click the Begin Search button
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When you make a query, the titles of twenty matching documents will be shown. \ There is a button at the end to take you on to the next twenty documents. From \ there you will find buttons to take you on to the third twenty or back to the \ first twenty, and so on. Click the title of any document, or the little button \ beside it, to see it.

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A maximum of 50 is imposed on the number of \ documents returned. You can change this number by clicking the \ PREFERENCES button at the top of the page.

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Search Terms

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Whatever you type into the query box is interpreted as a list of words or phrases \ called "search terms." A term is a single word containing only letters and digits, or a phrase \ consisting of a sequence of words enclosed in double quotes ("..."). Terms are separated by white spaces. \ If any other characters such as punctuation appear, they serve to separate terms just as though they were \ spaces. And then they are ignored. You can't search for words that include punctuation.

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For example, the query

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will be treated the same as

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Query type

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There are two different kinds of query.

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Use as many search terms as you like--a whole sentence, or even a whole paragraph. If you specify only \ one term, documents will be ordered by its frequency of occurrence.

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Scope of queries

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In most collections you are given a choice of different indexes to search. For example, there might \ be author or title indexes. Or there might be chapter or paragraph indexes. Generally, \ the full matching document is returned regardless of which index you search.

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If documents are books, they will be opened at the appropriate place.

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Changing your preferences

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When you click the PREFERENCES button at the top of the page you will \ be able to change some features of the interface to suit your own requirements.

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Collection preferences

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Some collections comprise several subcollections, which can be searched \ independently or together, as one unit. If so, you can select which \ subcollections to include in your searches on the Preferences page.

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Language preferences

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Each collection has a default presentation language, but you can switch to \ a different language if you like. You can also alter the encoding scheme \ used by Greenstone for output to the browser -- the software chooses \ sensible defaults, but with some browsers it may be necessary to switch to \ a different encoding scheme to ensure correct character display. \ All collections allow you to switch from the standard graphical interface format to a textual one. This \ is particularly useful for visually impaired users who use large screen fonts or speech synthesizers for output.

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Presentation preferences

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Depending on the particular collection, \ there may be several options you can set that control the presentation.

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Collections of Web pages allow you to suppress the Greenstone navigation bar at the top of each document page, \ so that once you have done a search you land at the exact Web page that matches without any Greenstone header. \ To do another search you will have to use your browser's "back" button. These collections also allow you to suppress \ Greenstone's warning message when you click a link that takes you out of the digital library collection and on to the \ Web itself. And in some Web collections you can control whether the links on the search results page take you straight \ to the actual URL in question, rather than to the digital library's copy of the page.

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Search preferences

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You can switch to an "advanced" query mode which allows you to combine terms \ using & (for "and"), | (for "or"), and ! (for "not"), using parentheses for \ grouping if desired. This allows you to specify more precise queries.

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It is possible to get a large query box, so that you can easily do paragraph-sized searching. \ It is surprisingly quick to search for large amounts of text.

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You can turn on the search history feature, which shows you your last few \ queries. This makes it easy to repeat slightly modified versions of previous queries.

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Finally, you can control the number of hits returned, and the \ number presented on each screenful.

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A pair of buttons controls whether upper and lower case must match when searching. \ For example, if "ignore case differences" is selected, snail farming will be treated the same as Snail Farming and SNAIL FARMING.