Help Contents

From the search pages, you can use the toolbar to open a Help page, consult general information about the Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker, start a search or access the Table of Contents, Works by Author, Search History and Marked List pages.

The Search Diaries page can be opened by clicking Diaries on the toolbar.

You can search the Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker using a combination of the following search fields:

• Keyword
  
• Author
  
• Date
  
• Search in
• Display Search Results
  

To conduct a search, either type the required search terms (individual words or phrases) into the relevant search boxes or select them from a browse index. Search Options are selected from a drop-down list. In the Search Register page, you can combine search terms using Boolean and proximity searching and search for variations on search terms using truncation searching.

Keyword

You can use the Keyword field to search for any word or phrase contained within a diary entry. To enter terms into the search box:

• browse a list of keywords from which you can select terms to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type your search terms directly into the Keyword search box. Search terms are not case-sensitive and may consist of either single words or phrases. Characters may be accented or unaccented or be written with or without an umlaut.

For example:

When searching in the Keyword field, you can use truncation to retrieve documents containing variations on a term. If you choose to search for more than one term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Author

You can use the Author field to search for the author of a particular diary entry. To enter terms into the search box:

• browse a list of Authors from which you can select names to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type an author's name directly into the Author search box. Characters may be accented or unaccented or be written with or without an umlaut.

For example:

Date

You can use the Date field to select a range of years to search in.

To select a range of years:

• type directly into the From and To boxes

The search will now be restricted to diary entries found in those years.

Search in

You can use the Search in field to restrict your search to particular elements in the database.

To select an option:

• click on the drop-down menu

The search will now be restricted to this selection. The default selection is Full Text and Apparatus.

Display Search Results

You can use Display Search Results to choose the way in which the results of your search are presented.

To select an option:

• Click on the drop-down menu

The search results will be displayed either With Context or as a Summary of Matches according to your choice.

Durable URL

Clicking the Durable URL link at the top of the pages in the site will open a small pop-up window containing a Durable URL for this citation. You can copy and paste this link into your own resources and can use it to link straight back into the product at this page.