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How to search

With a word
The easiest search includes an only word. Searching in the library works with full words and doesn’t take into account accents, capital or small letters.

E.g. If you type in the search box the word family you would obtain all the documents containing the word family, and also the documents containing the word family with accent (família in Spanish) and the documents containing family, FAMILY o any other combination of capital and small letter. On the other hand, the same search wouldn’t obtain documents containing the word families or familiar (unless those documents also include the word family).

If one word can appear written in several ways, we can use a question mark (?) instead of one of its letters.

E.g. If you type me?ico, the library would find documents containing Mexico or Mejico, among others, médico could also be found (in Spanish).

When there are several letters we don’t definitely know, we can use an asterisk *).

E.g. If you type family*, the library would find documents containing the words that start with family followed by any number of letters: family, familiar, families, familiarity, etc.

The searching system can also find ‘similar’ words to others; indeed, words that could have been typed wrongly. To do that you need the sign ~ (in Windows typing the combination ALT GR + 4 followed by a space, in Mac OS X typing the combination Option + ñ followed by a space).

E.g. family~

With several words
To find documents containing several words at the same time you can simply type the words with spaces or using the conjunction AND (in capital letters) between them.
E.g. If you type holy family or holy AND family, you would obtain those documents containing the phrases holy family, family holy and even the family is holy, but not documents contaning just the world family or the word holy or any of them.

Occasionally the word order is important. In this case they must be typed between inverted commas.

E.g. If you type ‘holy family’, the library would find documents contaning the exact phrase, but not the documents containing the phrases family holy or the family is holy.

With one word or another
To find documents containing one word or another you can use the conjuntion OR (in capital letters).

E.g. To find family or youth you should type family OR youth.

To find one word and not another
To find documents containing one word and not another, you must type AND NOT or the sign minus (-) just before the second word.

E.g. To find family but not youth you should type family BUT NOT youth or family –youth.

How the results are shown

According to the established in ‘How to search’ tab, in «Nuestro Tiempo» magazine’s library the results are ordered in several ways:

from the most recent to the oldest (presentation made by default)
from the oldest to the most recent
by modification
by inclusion
by relevance

«Nuestro Tiempo» magazine’s library shows the searching results through the following options:

Document’s Miniature or icon.
Text extract from the page, where the used searching terms are shown remarked in yellow.
See, to access the PDF format page.
Details, to open the document’s file.
Add to my dossier, of special use with wide searchings. Thanks to this function the user can create his/her own ‘dossier’with the searching results to consult later or share with other users. For that he/she only has to choose this option in the interesting searching results. In a similar way, you can ‘Erase from my dossier’ the results you don’t want to keep. If the user would like to recover the content from his/her dossier later on, it can be kept in his/her own computer. For that, he/she has to click on ‘Save’ button, which will download to you computer a file with the necessary data to recover his/her dossier (the file’s name is, by default, dossiert.txt). The ‘load’ button allows you to choose a previously downloaded file. The dossier’s file doesn’t contain the documents, but just the information that allows the library to find the documents later on.
Trends, option chosen by clicking on the correspondent button in ‘Advanced search’ tab. It allows you to determine at a glance in which dates a certain search is relevant. By choosing this option, the user obtains a bar chart of the searching distribution in the dates margin established and can delimit it in a dynamic way depending on the obtained results.