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Romanciers réalistes et naturalistes Published by Bibliopolis, Paris, 1998 |
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Database-Specific Searching Tips
Bibliographic Searching:Author and Title: Many titles and their authors' names contain accented characters and must be entered as such; however, in order to enter words without having to pay attention to accents simply turn on Caps Lock and type in uppercase. In bibliographic searches, punctuation and spacing must match exactly that in the bibliography. Please note that a space must be entered after an apostrophe (e.g., d' amour, not d'amour).
Date: Texts in the database range in date from 1568 to 1966. There 17 und ated documents so noted by the abbreviation [s.d.].
Data-Entry Idiosyncrasies:
Several data errors have been detected in some databases either from
typesetting errors in the original source or from rekeying the documents.
One should avoid making arguments from silence. In particular,
look out for the transposition of letters or the doubling of letters.
Punctuation and Full-Text Searching:
Hyphens: Hyphens act as word separators. Thus, treat hyphenated
expressions as separate words excluding the hyphen (e.g., if searching
for soixante-cinq, type in soixante cinq.)
Apostrophes: One must include apostrophes when searching words
with apostrophes and one must insert a space after apostrophes since
in this database apostrophes act as word separators (e.g., only by typing
d' Histoire or Nicholson' s will one find d'Histoire
or Nichols on's).
Ampersands: The ampersand (&) is not a searchable
character. Avoid
Phrase Searches where an ampersand may be used as a conjunction.
Formatting and Display:
Notes: There are notes throughout the database. In PhiloLogic
notes never interfere when searching the text to which they refer.
Note references are linked to notes and text from notes are linked
to page references.
Images: There are many images in this database. They are not
currently in place.