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Main Search Bar Tips
- The main search bar is stationary throughout HeinOnline
- Once inside the Civil Rights Library, the Full Text search tab option on the search bar will search within only this database
- Need something more robust? Click Advanced Search to perform a search using custom drop downs
- Need a refresher on how to construct a perfect search? Click Search Help for a quick reference guide to commonly used search syntax
Using the Main Search Bar
- For example, enter the phrase “voting rights” inside quotation marks into the search bar
- Use the facets on the left side of the page to narrow your results by Date, Document Type, Section Type, Subjects, or Title
- Terms matching the search query appear in bold text within the matching text page snippets
- Sort search results by relevance, volume date, and title
- Save to your MyHein, email a result, display download options, or download a PDF using the icons on the right side of each search result.
- Use the icons next to the sort-by bar to modify your current search, to search within results, to toggle all matching text pages, or to turn OFF infinite scroll
Using Advanced Search
- Click Advanced Search to be taken to a page with custom facets to help maximize your research within this collection
- Use the drop downs to choose a variety of ways to search: Text, Title, Creator/Author, Description
- Add another search field if three isn't enough
- Select a subcollection to search within, Ctrl + click to select multiple subcollections, or search all
- Pick a title by citation to search within
- Restrict results within a date range and change how results are sorted
About Venn Diagram Search
- Venn Diagram Search offers a visual representation of how search terms interact with each other
- Helps users both refine their current search terms and become better researchers going forward
- Find the link to Venn Diagram Search on the Advanced Search page
- Searches are constructed by stringing together multiple terms separated by the Boolean operator "AND," with phrases grouped together in quotation marks
- Results on the right side of the page pertain to the search as we originally constructed it (represented by the red slice in the center of the intersecting circles)
- Select Clear for the ability to hover over the different segments of the diagram and see all possible search term combinations from our original query.
- In our example, we can see results for:
- employment AND disability
- disability AND "reasonable accommodation"
- employment AND "reasonable accommodation"
- the terms employment, disability, and "reasonable accommodation" individually
- Sort the results, save or export, turn to the specific page of a result, or start at the beginning of a given title
