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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Search TipsSample Searches | Identification Codes Sample Searches (4)The following sample searches are provided as guides to popular types of searches in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents databases. They are performed in the 1998 Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents database, unless otherwise indicated. For the sake of space, only the top three hits in each results list are included with each example below.
Table of Contents by Issue Date | Subject | Page Number | Executive Order Number 1. Search for Table of Contents by Issue Date This type of search returns the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents table of contents for a specific date. If you do not include a date in your query, the table of contents for every issue of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents in the database(s) you are searching will be returned.
To view the table of contents, click on the text or PDF link for "Contents," which will retrieve the document.
This type of search returns documents that are related to a specific subject. The word(s) that you enter as your search term(s) may appear anywhere within the document.
This type of search returns documents that appear wholly or partially on a specified page. You must include the word "page" in your query in order to eliminate the return of documents that include the page number as a numeric reference within the text.
For documents that span more than one page, it is possible to find the full page range by consulting the heading in an ASCII text file or the "Go To Page" tool in the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Page breaks are indicated by separators (e.g., [[Page 1158]]) in an ASCII text file or by a new page view in the Adobe Acrobat Reader; they may, as in a printed document, fall in the middle of a sentence. 3. Search by Executive Order Number This type of search returns documents based on an executive order number.
If you wish to retrieve a string of executive orders, you may use an asterisk (*) to truncate the number. For example, the query "executive order 1309*" returns executive orders with the numbers 13090 through 13099. Identification CodesIn the list that displays your query results, the title of each document from the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is preceded by an identification code. The identification code contains two elements: a database abbreviation and the issue date. For example, in the identification code "pd11ja99," "pd" stands for Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (Presidential Documents for short), and "11ja99" is the issue date (January 11, 1999). |