NewJour Search Help

WAIS Indexing of NewJour

The NewJour archive of announcements is indexed with freeWAIS-sf.

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:

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.)

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).

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"