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WAIS Indexing of NewJour
The NewJour archive of announcements is indexed with
freeWAIS-sf.
freeWAIS-sf
(http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/ir/projects/freeWAIS-sf/index.html
) was written by Ulrich Pfeifer.
We add new announcements to the index as they arrive and rebuild the
entire index at least once a week.
Search tips and index descriptions for full text searching and title
searching are listed below:
Full Text Searching
- The Full Text Search allows you to search every word in
every announcement in the NewJour archive.
- Do not
include common words (e.g., "a" "an" "the" "or" "and") in searches.
- Search Options: When searching on more than one word, you can
specify how to combine those words. Use the pop-up selection box
to choose an option:
| pop-up box says
| documents must have
| example
| might find this many items
|
|
| these words adjacent and in this order
| architectural theory
| 1
|
|
| all these words somewhere in message
| architectural theory
| 2
|
|
| any one of these words
| architectural theory
| more than 40
|
- A phrase must appear on one line in original message in order
to be found by search.
- Searches are case in-sensitive.
- No word truncation or synonym searching is available; (e.g., a
search on "cat"
will get only entries with "cat" -- it will
not find
"cats" or "allocate" or
"catch").
- URLs may be searched; (e.g., both the search
"www.eznet.com" and
the search "eznet" find the same item.)
Title Searching
- Do not
include common words (e.g., "a" "an" "the" "or" "and") in searches.
- Searches are case in-sensitive.
- No word truncation or synonym searching is available; (e.g., a
search on "cat" will get only entries with
"cat" -- it will not find
"cats" or "allocate" or
"catch").
- Search Options: When searching on more than one word, you can
specify how to combine those words. Use the pop-up selection box
to choose an option. See the table above for examples (based on full
text search).
"String" Search of Titles
- The "string search of titles" is provided as an alternative to
the above WAIS searches.
- It searches for "strings of characters." There are no "stop words,"
so you can search for "a", "an", "the", etc.
- Searches are not case sensitive.
- The "string" you type in the search box is searched exactly the
way you type it, so multi-word searches are always searched as a
phrase.
- Anything can appear before or after the string of characters you
search. So, a search on "cat" will
find entries that have the
words: "cat" or "cats" or
"allocate" or
"catch" or "education."
- Use the period (.) to stand for "any letter or character."
- The results of searches are always listed alphabetically by title
and include the date each title
was added to NewJour. There is currently no way to limit results, so
you always get everything that matches your search.
- Examples of string search
- journal of inter
finds:
- "Cal Poly Journal of Interdisiplinary
Studies"
- "Journal of
Interactive Media in Education"
- mac finds:
- "Mac Chat"
- "Macworld"
- "Cat Machine"
- "American Society of Health System Pharmacists Newsletter"
- Immaculata Magazine
- wom.n finds:
- "Political Woman Hotline"
- "Women Online"
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