How it works

How it works:

The repository can be consulted in different ways:

  1. You can carry out general or advanced searches of the whole repository, a community or a collection.
  2. You can access the communities directly, and, once inside, enter and search each collection.
  3. At the same time, you can use the ‘Discover’ tool to efficiently limit the search.
  4. Search results can be indexed by author, title, material and so on.
General search:

Write the word or film title you wish to search for. The search can be limited to a specific community or collection. Search tips: general search

On entering a word in the search box, the system will search for the word in the title, author, material and magazine year or issue; it will also do a full-text search of PDF contents.

  1. Truncation: Using an asterisk (*) after the root of a word in the search shows all the words starting with the root, e.g.: if you enter select*, it will also show selecting, selection and so on.
  2. Stemming: The search automatically expands words with common endings, including plural, verb conjugations, etc.
  3. Text string search: To search for several words making a sentence or the title of a film, put inverted commas at the beginning and end of the string, e.g.: “cinema equipment”, or a title: “Mañana volveré”.
  4. Exact word match: You can add the plus (+) sign to ensure a word appears in the search results. For example, in the following search: analytical + models, the word analytical is optional, but the word models will appear in the results.
  5. Eliminate document with unwanted words: You can add the minus (-) sign to exclude a word from the search. Alternatively, you can use the Boolean operator NOT. This operator limits the search, eliminating unwanted results. For instance: - analytical models. This search produces documents containing the word models, except those that contain the word analytical.
  6. Boolean search: The following Boolean operators are used to combine search terms. The operators must be written in capital letters. AND: limits the search by locating documents that contain the terms combined with this operator, e.g.: if you enter “analytical” AND “models” you will get documents containing both words. OR: this extends the search by locating documents that contain any of the combined terms, e.g.: if you enter “analytical” OR “models” you will get documents containing at least one of the words. NOT: this excludes the terms written after the operator. If you put “models” NOT “analytical” the search will find documents containing the word models except those that also contain the word analytical.
  7. Brackets can be used to place search terms into groups. The operators can also be applied to these groups: (analytical) AND (models OR methods).
Advanced search:

The advanced search can be used to combine terms and specify whether the terms are to be searched as a title, author, country, date or material, in order to refine the search.

Results may be ordered by various criteria: relevance, title, date, etc.

Explore:

This enables a list of indexed content to be viewed in a given order: author, title, etc.

Discover:

This is a powerful search tool that automatically provides a list of terms sorted by relevance, under the concepts of author, title or date, thus limiting the search in the most appropriate way.