Search Tips
How to find any value in any field:
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Empty search box returns all records in the database.
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How to find documents in a particular collection:
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Click on a link below the search box to see and select subcollections
such as Historical Articles or Photographic Collection, or select/deselect the tick boxes next to a
particular collection before doing the search.
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If you want documents from a 'collection' not proposed by default,
such as "Vacaville", then enter it as a search term.
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How to search for words/phrases (within titles, abstracts, etc):
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Returns records containing words Chief and Solano.
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Returns records containing phrase 'Chief Solano' in title.
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Returns records entitled exactly "Chief Solano" but not records such as
"Overview of Chief Solano".
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How to use truncation:
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Returns records containing words water, waters, waterman, etc.
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How to use boolean operators:
or:
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Returns records containing both water and sea.
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Returns records containing either water or sea.
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Returns records containing water but not sea.
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How to search for authors:
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Some authors have unique names and
their publications can be retrieved by searching for
the surname in any field.
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For better results, type surname comma initial(s) and select the author field.
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Sometimes authors are indexed with their full name.
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More information:
Special characters, regular expressions, fulltext searching, citation
searching, and other capabilities are fully explained in the complete
Search Guide.
