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DATABASE SCOPE AND COVERAGE
Realkatalog DAI Rom
Archäologische
Bibliographie is an important bibliography in the study of classical
archaeology and related areas, and to a lesser extent the Ancient Near
East. The electronic version is called Realkatalog DAI Rom and indexes
books, periodicals, symposia, and Festschriften from 1956 onward. |
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| II.
STARTING |
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on “IP-Zugang/IP-Access” and “Start.” Choose Realkatalog DAI Rom from
the drop down menu and choose a language. |
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are four ways to search the database: |
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Predefined
Search |
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Tree of
Subject Headings |
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String
in Title and Comment |
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Unspecified
Subject |
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screen will default to the PREDEFINED SEARCH, but you may also choose
other searches from any of the buttons in the far left frame. As you try
different search strategies, a list of your results & the # of hits
will appear in the top frame on the right called “Results” You can retrieve
a prior result set anytime by returning to that list. Any full citation
you have viewed is chronicled in the lower right frame. |
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| III.
PREDEFINED SEARCH |
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Choose your index from the drop down box, e.g., AUTHOR (or TITLE, SERIES,
PERIODICAL, etc.) |
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Type in the second box: Stewart, A (sample author) |
Note:
The search engine is case-sensitive; remember to capitalize
the first letter, even the T in The!
Difficulties can be encountered when searching words with foreign characters.
Just remember that letters with accents file in the database immediately
following those without accents, so if you wish to search for a word with
an accent, such as Müller, type “Mv” and back up in the list of entries
to those with an umlauted u.
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Press “Enter” or click on “Start.” |
4.
This will give you a list of possible headings. Click on the appropriate
heading to begin the search. Or, click on the gray arrows to browse them
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Note: Authors appear in variant forms. You need to
search the forms separately and use the Results button on the left to
combine them into a single result.
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| 5.
To begin another search, choose from the buttons on the left. |
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| Results |
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list of brief author/title citations appears in frame on the left,
the oldest displayed first. |
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Move through
the list via the up and down arrows at the bottom of the frame.
Click on “Date range of Publication” to limit your search.
Unclick any title you don’t want to keep in your result set and then click
on the “Delete unchecked records” button. |
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on any title to see a fuller reference. |
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(To return
to the list you will probably need to click on the result set list in
the top right window. Mac users may be able to manually enable the back
button from their Explorer’s top menu, but under most browsers that top
menu bar is unavailable.) |
| Click
on side-pointing arrows at lower right to move through the entire result
set. |
| Click
on “Hierarchy arrow” to see the full title of abbreviated periodicals
or full bibliographic entry for monographs. |
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- If you
click on that full name of that title you will get a list (in the bottom
left frame) of all the other articles in that book or issues of that journal
indexed in the database.
- If you click on the specific abbreviated journal and volume #, you will
get a list of all the other articles in that volume.
- To return to your original search click on “Zurück zu …” |
| “DATA-SHEETS”
display below the frame for an individual citation. |
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- “Subjects”
(the default) lists the full subject tree for the above citation. This
is handy to help you formulate additional subject tree searches.
- “Reviews” lists books reviews for monographs. Click on the abbreviated
citation to get a fuller description. Use the hierarchy arrow to get full
periodical titles.
- “Links” lists additional related records in the database. |
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| IV.
OTHER SEARCHES: TREE, STRING AND UNSPECIFIED |
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TREE
of SUBJECT HEADINGS Search
(= Dyabola’s own unique very developed HIERARCHICAL subject headings)
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Go
down the subject tree by clicking on the Black Crosses.
To move backwards up the subject tree, click on the minus symbol
before the heading.
To choose all the entries for all the subheadings
of a subject, click on [all sub]
Some subject terms offer a pre-determined list of appropriate
sub-terms.
A blank box is presented opposite the term; e.g. Vessels > terra cotta
vases > painters and potters [box]. Input a term , or the beginning
of it, (such as “Chi” for Chicago Painter) in the box and press “Enter/start”
and select from the list that appears. Notice he appears in German as
Chicago M[aler].
Hold your mouse/cursor over the small I for Information squares to read
these explanations and see and see also references.
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| STRING
SEARCHING (= precise string, any part of the title) |
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Select
Exact string, Ignore capitals or Ignore capitals & accent, and then
type in your string. |
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UNSPECIFIED
SUBJECT SEARCHING
(= DYABOLA’s unique “Keywords,” i.e. people, places and
things.) |
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The latter
includes book titles, objects of everyday life. The words are usually
in the vernacular or in German, e.g. España not Spain and Andokides
not Andocides. |
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RESULT, EXPORT PRINT Button |
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COMBINE
SETS
Select the result sets and the operator from the pull down menu boxes.
Type in a name for the new result set and then click on “combine”.
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PRINT
/ EXPORT
Select your result set from the pull down menu and click on “Export/print.”
At the top of the next window that appears choose either Print or E-Mail
to send or print the entire list. (N.B. The e-mail option is only available
in Explorer)
Note: This is limited to 500 records at a time, but you can create several
smaller result sets by limiting the larger set by date.
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You can
also print one record at a time by typing Control-P. |
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*This
guide, with minor revisions, is the work of L. Stylianopoulos (U of Va.),
S. Willetts Inst. of Class. Studies, London) and J. Wellington (U. of
Cincinnati)
Revised May 23,2003
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