NSCEP Online Publication Service Tools

  Shopping Cart

• In a results list this Hardcopy Document Indicator shows that the item is a document available for ordering. Selecting this icon will place the title in your cart for ordering.

• When viewing a document online it stores the document so you can reference it later. This is usefull for documents you may use frequently.

  PDF document

• Delivers a PDF formatted document in a separate window. When it appears in a result list, the document rendered will be one originally generated in this format and it will have text content. If selected from the Document Display page, the content will be an image only PDF that is generated on demand.

  Electronic Eye

• Indicates that a document is available online.

or   Seek Your Search Term

• After searching for a particular term the displayed document will now show the term of interest highlighted wherever it occurs!

• You can navigate through the document from hit to hit (a 'hit' being the search term) using the previous/next hit buttons.

or   Show Adjacent Page

• As you peruse a document you can step through pages sequentially using these controls, moving in the direction of the arrow

or   Show Adjacent Document

• Select the next document in the results list for viewing. The first page of the document will be selected.

or   Change Page Display Size

• Allows the selection of one of five display resolutions.

  Return to Results list

• This provides a quick way to return to the results list page from any point in your search. This can be useful if you have viewed many pages and wish to go back to the results list without using the back button of your browser.

  Display All Text

• There may be times where the actual text is useful. This mechanism provides the UNFORMATTED text derived from the document images via OCR processing.

  Display all pages

• For smaller documents you may wish to see all of the pages and use your browser to scroll down. This is often easier to use in the place of page navigation when the document is small. Definately NOT recommended for larger documents, especially on low bandwidth connections.

  Report document defect

• You may, occasionally, find a document that has some sort of defect. Should you encounter a problem with any given page, please help us improve the the quality of this service by reporting it using this feature.

or   Downloadable Documents

• Two image types are available for download. Document images can be downloaded either as multipage TIFFs ( ) or as PDF ( ) for use in your Acrobat Reader. These options can be used to obtain a copy for local print.

  Be Warned!
  Each document page is typically about 50-80kb. Downloading a large document on a dialup connection could be lengthy.

  Look for Specific Publication Number or Title

• We provide a complete list of titles, ordered by publication number via the Publication Number/Title Lists. You can use sublists or the entire catalog and your browsers "find" feature to locate specific titles.

• While key fields such as publication number and title are included when using simple search, one of the subfeatures of advanced search gives you the option to search by identifying fields which include publication number or document title.  Your results can even be resorted using one of the fields to make it easier to find the document you need.