How to search for particular words
How to find journal articles in this collection
There are 5 ways to find journal articles in this collection:
- search for particular words that appear in the text by clicking the Search button
- browse documents by Title by clicking the Titles button
- browse documents by Author by clicking the Author button
- browse documents by Subject by clicking the Subjects button
- browse documents by Journal/Year by clicking the Journal/Year button
For browsing, the default display is for Directions articles. To change the display to Pacific Curriculum Network articles, select Pacific Curriculum Network.
How to read the documents
When you have arrived at any listing of articles, you are presented with two different ways of looking at the documents:
[ original document ] to view the original document
[ document information ] to view information about the document
Each document opens in a new window.
Note that a textual view of each document is available from the document information page.
How to search for particular words
From the search page, you make a query in these simple steps:
- Specify what items you want to search.
- Specify whether you want to search for the word in the full text, subject, author or title.
- Specify whether you want to search in all journals or a particular journal and a specific volume (all journals is the default).
- Type in the words you want to search for.
- Click the Begin Search button.
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.
Search terms
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.
For example, the query
Forum Basic Education Action Plan (2001)
will be treated the same as
Forum Basic Education Action Plan 2001
For collections built with MGPP a few other options are available.
- An asterisk (*) at the end of a query term matches all words starting with that word. E.g comput* matches all words starting with comput.
- A forward slash (/) and number can be used to give more weight to one or more of the query terms. E.g computer/10 science gives computer 10 times more weight than science when ranking documents.