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What happens during your search?
- The KorBib Online Catalog confines your search to one particular collection
or category per search.
- A search is based on terms. If you enter Seoul and
Orient, the system will look for records containing these words.
- The system will display results grouped in three categories, according to how
closely the content of the record matched the terms you entered.
- You can select from the list of results by clicking on any "hot
linked" title that looks of interest. A full record will then display.
- It is possible to move quickly through a large result set by clicking on the
"page" numbers that appear, in increments, at the top of long displays. There are
approximately 20 records per "page."
- You can start a new search in the collection or category you have chosen by
clicking on "NEW SEARCH." You can return to the list of collections/categories by
clicking on "START OVER."
Search Tips:
- Use either capital or lowercase letters. Case does not affect the results of your
search.
- Common words (e.g., AND, THE) and most marks of punctuation will not be
considered in the search.
- Enter the words in the order in which they would most likely appear in the
text. The order of the terms does not affect which records appear in the search
results, but it does determine which records will display first (relevancy ranking).
- To make searching more precise, select "Search for words exactly as
entered" under the search term form. If, on the other hand, you want the system to
generalize your search to include singulars, plurals, and words with the same "stem,"
select "Search for variants of search words."
- When you are viewing a record, you can click on any "hot linked"
terms (e.g., those listed under SUBJECTS or AUTHOR) to retrieve a list of other records with
similar terms.
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There are three ways to search data in the KorBib Online Catalog: text search,
search particular parts of the catalog record, and choose from lists of terms used in catalog
records.
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Searching Particular Parts Of the Catalog Records--Choose this
type of search when you:
NOTE:This option is not available in the ALL
Collections/Categories search (there are too many terms to list). Collections may vary in the lists
that are made available. Since selecting from the list of terms is the equivalent of entering a search
with those terms, you may get search results that do not exactly match the terms you clicked on.
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Sequence in which multiple records display--The system
searches for up to 5,000 records that matched your query in some way. Records are displayed
according to how closely their content matched the terms you entered. The results will be
displayed in the following sets:
- Records that matched the terms exactly (sometimes, because certain words
are ignored, the system will list something as an "exact" match when it does not, in
fact, exactly match the terms you entered).
- Records that include all the terms, but not necessarily near each other.
- Records that include one or more of the terms entered.
Within each of these three categories, the sequence of records may be somewhat
random. The records are not sorted alphabetically by title, for instance.
NOTE: It is possible to move quickly through a large result set by clicking on
the "page" numbers that appear, in increments, at the top of the display. There are
approximately 20 records per "page."
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