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How to search

Type the name of the person or the book title into the “Search for” box.

Type first name, last name, eg. Bryce Courtney

or

Type last name, eg. Courtney

In:

“All” is the default option, where your term is searched across the whole database.

Alternatively you can narrow your search by clicking on the down arrow button and selecting either:

Persons

or

Book titles

Figure 1 - Example of Search Entry Display

Figure 1. Example of Search Entry Display


Limiting your search

Select the type of article you require by clicking on the down arrow button and selecting either:

Biographies

or

Book Titles

or

Obituaries

The default is “All types”

If you only want to find citations in the one newspaper/journal, type in the title, Eg.

Quadrant

Age

Figure 2 - Example of Search Limit Display

Figure 2. Example of Search Limit Display

NOTE: for newspapers such as The Age, The Australian, etc. you do not need to type 'The' when searching under specific newspapers/journals. By including 'The', you may not retrieve all of the records that are available.

To see the list of journals/newspapers that are indexed, click on the link List of Indexed Titles.

Figure 3 - Example of how List of Indexed Titles will display

Figure 3. Example of how List of Indexed Titles will display


Browsing OzLife

Browsing and Searching are two different features. If you know the name of the person or the book title you require information about, use the Search option. The Browsing option is applicable when you are not sure about the name or the spelling of the person and you wish to look through a range of names, or book titles.
Likewise, if you wish to find biographies about certain people in a range of occupations, you can browse through the various listings. For example, you can browse all records about sportsmen/sportswomen to find relevant citations.

When browsing persons type in the name of first letters of a name. Type in the last name of the person only. If you type in the first name as well as surname, you may get zero results. Likewise if you only type in the first name, you will not retrieve records successfully.

Eg:

For Courtney you could type Court or Co or C

When browsing book titles, type in the first few letters/words of the title. As this is not a keyword search you must enter the title as it is written, including 'The' or 'A' as necessary.

Eg:

A search for "The peace broker" will retrieve some results, however a search on "peace broker" will not.

A search for "A cabinet diary" will locate a record, however a search for "cabinet diary" only will not.

The browse option only searches up the the first three (3) words in a book title. It will retrieve records for "The peace maker" but it will not retrieve the record if you type in the last part of the title only, eg: "The unorthodox career of Richard Butler".

In:

Select the type of citation you wish to browse in:

Person

or

Book titles

or

Occupation

Then click on “Browse”

Figure 4 - Example of Browse Entry Display

Figure 4. Example of Browse Entry Display

Occupations: These are the Library of Congress authorised subject headings. If you are having trouble locating a specific occupation, consult a reference librarian for the correct subject headings to search under.


Results display

Each citation will be listed with:

  • Title and author of article (if available)
  • Title of the newspaper/journal that the article was published in
  • Volume and issue details (journals only)
  • Date
  • Page numbers
  • Type of article, eg. book review

Click on the word View to display full citation/reference.


 

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