How to use the form.

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In this form you can select fields and enter data to search on. After you've pressed the 'SEARCH' button, the wwwopac will start a search based on the form.
The searchroutine is case insensitive.

Field

 Here you select the field to search on.
When you want to search more than one value in a field, select the field in serveral lines and enter the values you want to find. You can set the operator, truncation and the boolean for all those fields separately

Operator

 You can set the relation between the value you enter in the form and the value in the record. The value in the record can be smaller than (<), smaller than or equal to (<=), equal to (=), greater than or equal to (>=) or greater than (>) the value you enter in the form. Using contains, you can also instruct the wwwopac to search for the value anywhere in the field. All the characters you've entered for this field, then have to be in the field, next to each other, in the same order as they are in the form.

Value

 The value you enter is the value the wwwopac will search for. With the operator you can determine how this value should relate to the value in the records.

Truncation

 Using truncation (by checking the checkbox) any string of characters (or no characters at all) is allowed after the ones you've already entered. This means that the search will include any word starting with the characters you've entered and the string of characters itself.
An example:
Entering comp in the title field will result in every record that has a word starting with 'comp' (such as 'company', 'companies' and 'competition') in the title.
Truncation only works in combination with the '=' operator. With the other operators only the value you've entered is used.

Boolean

 When you want to search on several fields, you can combine those fields using 'and', 'or' and 'not'.

Organisation name

 In this field you can enter the name of an organisation.

Aims/Functions

 In this field you can enter words describing the aims and functions of the organisation Use individual words rather than typing a whole sentence. The order of the words is not important

Subject

 Here you can enter subject keywords that the search engine should look for. An example from our database: 'bank', which will find 'Bank of England', but also 'Bankruptcy'.

Organisational publications

 In this field you can enter words from the organisational publications to look for. Use individual words rather than typing a whole sentence. The order of the words is not important

Type of organisation

 Here you can enter the type of organisation you are looking for.
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