Help: Searching the Index

Contents

• Short Help
  • How to search
  • How to accept Index Entries
• Detailed Help
  • How to search
  • How to accept Index Entries

Short Help

Searching for index entries::

• No distinction is made between small and capital letters,
• Wild card is marked by *
• The letters "ä, ö, ü" and "-ß" are dissolved automatically
• Names: enter "surname, first name" (e.g.: diepold, peter)
• Key words: are entered in the natural sequence of their occurrence (e.g.: sozialpädagogische Betreuung)
• Part of word:
  • exact: finds record with an exact match of characters to the search entry
  • Beginning of word or name: finds records where the beginning of a word matches that of the search term
  • Part of word or name: finds entries that match the search term anywhere

Index terms can be accepted as search terms by: Clicking onto the index term (it will then appear in the "search" box next to the index term box of the bibliographical database).

Detailed Help

 

The three indexes for search terms, authors/publishers, and upgrades each contain the complete set of entries for the search quest. It may appear useful to search the indexes when you are not sure what search terms to enter into the box.

Three similar search boxes for the indexes are available that can be searched for the terms you can subsequently use for retrieval (please note that the search option applies to the index terms, not to the titles as such).

The index of key terms contains thematic terms, the index of authors lists authors and publishers and the index of updates allows you to search for one of the updates that are provided four times a year.

Searching the index helps you to specify a search term when this is required. Hence, it is sufficient to know only a part of a desired search term. You can enter this part into the search box. You can then decide in what manner the index entry is to match the entry. The option "exact" finds entries with an exact match of characters, by selecting "beginning of name or word" defines a search for the match of terms with the beginning of the entry. "Part of word/name" finds entries where the match of characters appears at random.

Further, it is important to note that no distinction is made between small and capital letters when searching the index. The letters "ä", "ö", "ü" and "ß" are transformed automatically to ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=ss. You can use the wild card "*" (e.g. sonderpädagog* will find sonderpädagoge, sonderpädagogik and sonderpädagogisch). Search phrases consisting of several words are found in the correct sequence in the index (e.g. sozialpädagogische Betreuung instead of Betreuung, sozialpädagogische; this only concerns the index of key terms). Names/ Name parts (in the index of authors or key terms) are entered according to this: Surname, First name (e. g.: diepold, peter).

When your search quest is specified satisfactorily, you can activate the "search" button. The results (index entry/index entries) are displayed within their context in an excerpt from the index. A figure in brackets behind each entry indicates how often it has been assigned in the database. A line above the excerpt indicates the position of the index term within the complete index. You can move forward to the next excerpt, or backward to the one before, by using the "forward" and "back" buttons. The beginnings of words at the bottom indicate selected excerpts from indexes. Within the complete index. You can navigate the complete index by chosing a beginning of a word, thus activating an excerpt.

 

If you would like to accept an index entry for the search in the database, click onto it once. The index term is automatically displayed in the search box below the index box. You can continue this process until you have entered all the desired search terms into the retrieval box, and then close the index window. Now you can start your retrieval in the database.