Bibliographic Searching in order to limit a search by fields or to retrieve selected documents:
Author:	(e.g., Babcock)
Title:	(e.g., Early Pioneers)
Theme:	African-Americans Black Hawk War Campaign of 1858 Economic Development Frontier Settlement Law and Society Lincoln Mexican War Native American Relations Presidential Campaigns Political Development Religion and Culture Women and Gender    Search multiple themes
Type:	Text
Genre:	Advice Literature Article Autobiography Biography Diary Fiction Government Document History Interview Letter Memoir Narrative Poetry Proceedings Sermon Song Speech Travelogue    Search multiple genres
Date:	(e.g., 1864 or 1850-1865)
Note: The vertical line ( | ) is the OR operator (e.g., pioneers|settlers or vast|entire wilderness). For pattern matching one may employ wildcard characters (e.g., evang.* retrieves evangelize, evangelized, evangelist, etc.). Accented characters may be represented by two characters (e.g.,e\=è) or uppercase letters. For more help in searching see User Documentation below. Search Text(s) for: (e.g., wabina)            Back to About Lincoln/Net Select a Search Option: A. (Default) Single Term and Phrase Search B. Proximity Searching: in the same Sentence                                     Paragraph                                     Separated by words or fewer exactly in the same sentence. Note: in proximity searches a space serves as the AND operator. Select a Results Format: A. (Default) Concordance Report (300 characters plus)   B. KWIC Report (a single line of text)   C. Frequency by Title

    

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General User Documentation for PhiloLogic 1. Introduction 2. Searching the Bibliography     2.1 Bibliographic Fields     2.2 Retrieving and Navigating Documents 3. Character Representation for Search Terms     3.1 Accents and Special Characters     3.2 Wildcard Characters and Boolean Operators     3.3 Punctuation Marks and Searching 4. Selecting a Search Option     4.1 Single Term and Phrase Search (Default)     4.2 Proximity Searching in the Same Sentence or Paragraph 5. Selecting a Results Format     5.1. Concordance Report (300 characters plus)     5.2. KWIC Report (a single line of text)     5.3. Frequency by Title     5.4. Navigating Documents from Word Searches 6. Getting More Help Database-Specific Searching Tips Bibliographic Searching: Author and Title: When entering authors or titles, punctuation and spacing must match exactly that in the on-line bibliography. Date: The works in the database currently range in date of publication from 1803 to 1984. Theme: To limit one's search to a particular theme, simply choose the theme in the Theme Field. One may search more than one theme at a time; the vertical bar ( | ) serves as the OR operator (e.g., entering Law and Society|Economic Development searches both). Click here to search multiple fields. Genre: To limit one's search to a particular genre, simply choose the genre in the Genre Field. One may search more than one genre at a time; the vertical bar ( | ) serves as the OR operator (e.g., entering memoir|letter searches both). Click here to search multiple fields. Data-Entry Idiosyncrasies: Several data errors have been detected in some databases either from typesetting errors in the original source or from rekeying/OCRing the documents. One should avoid making arguments from silence. In particular, look out for the transposition or doubling of letters, similar letters (e.g., thc) or word-clustering. Punctuation and Full-Text Searching Hyphens: Hyphens act as word separators. Thus, one should treat hyphenated expressions as separate words excluding the hyphen (e.g. if searching for ever-changing, type in ever changing.) Apostrophes: One must include apostrophes when searching words with apostrophes in them (e.g., only by typing god's will one find "God's"). In this database apostrophes do not act as word separators. Therefore contractions and elisions must be entered without spaces before or after the apostrophe. Ampersands: The ampersand (&) is not a searchable character. Avoid Phrase Searches where an ampersand may be used as a conjunction. Formatting and Display Character Display: Notes: There are notes throughout the database. In PhiloLogic notes never interfere when searching the text to which they refer. Note references are linked to notes and text from notes are linked to page references. Images: There are several images throughout the database. Most are displayed as inline images once the user pulls up any level of context (e.g., page, paragraph, h3, h2, and h1), but not from a first-level results screen. Please direct comments or queries about this service to ets@lib.uchicago.edu. For questions or comments concerning the Project please contact: Drew E. VandeCreek, Director, Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University drew@niu.edu The ARTFL Project   |   Northern Illinois University Libraries