Advanced search
Advanced search
Click on the ‘Advanced’ button to the right of the free text search box to open-up the Advanced Search form.
The Advanced Search fields allow for more focused searching. At the top of the search form you’ll see the box ‘Search Type’. This allows you to change the way the search is conducted, as follows.
All of the words: searches for records that contains every word/number you’ve entered.
Any of the words: searches for records that contain any, some or all of the words/numbers you’ve entered.
Exact phrase: searches for records that contain all the words/numbers you’ve entered in precisely the order you’ve entered them.
Proximity: searches for records that contain all the words/numbers you’ve entered within a certain number of words from each other.
In the middle of the search form, you can direct the search to only look in certain fields of the catalogue record. You might want to try combinations of fields and search terms to get the best results.
Main title text: searches the title field.
Creator: searches fields that contain the name of a record’s author, or a person/organisation closely associated with that item. For example, enter ‘Frank L’Alouette’ for items created by this wartime Bognor photographer.
Place name: searches fields that contain the location an item was created, the place it refers to, or a place closely associated with that item if the record has been tagged with a place name.
Keywords, subjects: searches the ‘tags’ attached to a catalogue record to help improve searching.
Formats, materials: searches the fields that convey information about the physical format of an item. For example, a ‘negative’.
Search for or within references: If you know the catalogue number you can use this to search. Note: references are case sensitive. For example, search Kevis/1/B824 for the portrait photograph of Mr and Mrs Burley of Lodsworth. Search Kevis* (i.e. Kevis with an asterix) for all entries that begin with the catalogue reference Kevis.
Date range: searches for the records that fall within the whole period you’ve entered.