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A. Author:
- Search records by their authors.
- Enter last name, then first name separated by a comma. (E.g. Page, Norman)
- Leave out middle names, initials, and personal titles from search.
- Search for multiple authors by joining them together with an ampersand. Use the either the last name or the first name and last name of each. (E.g. Jones & Smith or Jones, Arthur & Smith, John)
- Advanced Tip: By default, author searches are phrase or string searches.
- Advanced Tip: By default, author searches are not case sensitive, and are truncated at the end.
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- Enter the entire title, a keyword or a phrase from the title (E.g. Structure of Browning's)
- Advanced Tip: By default, title searches are phrase or string searches.
- Advanced Tip: By default, title search phrases are not case-sensitive, and truncated at both the beginning and the end.
C. Keyword:
- Search for subject terms or phrases. (E.g. working classes)
- To search for more than one keyword or phrase, join together with an "and". (E.g. working classes AND Decadence)
- For effective keyword searching, select highlighted subject terms provided on results pages. (See Interpreting your Results.)
- Advanced Tip: By default, title searches are phrase or string searches.
- Advanced Tip: By default, keyword searches are not case-sensitive, and are truncated at both the beginning and the end.
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- Limit search by publication year
- Enter years as four digit numbers in the appropriate box.
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Tip: Multiple Field Searches: When you perform multiple field searches, the terms in each field will be joined with a boolean "and".
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Note: The Victorian Database Online is a bibliographic database, and does NOT provide the full text of any of the documents it lists.
Note: These records will be saved even if you perform other searches or temporarily leave the search site. Selected records can be deleted either by exiting the browser or selecting the "save selected" button from the results page, and then pressing the "Rest" button at the bottom of the page appearing subsequently.
Note: Any records selected during a search session will be cleared from memory if you exit from the browser you are using.
If you want to clear the records you have selected at any point during a search session, do the following:
- Click on the "save selected" button on any results page.
- At the bottom of the save selected page, click on the "clear selections" button.
A. Searching the Database
B. Interpreting your Results
C. Saving Selected
General
Interdisciplinary in coverage, Victorian Database contains information on publications from 500+ journals on Painting, Architecture and Music; Philosophy and Religion; Histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonial Empire; Sociology, Women’s Studies, Law and Education; Science, Technology and Medicine; and Literature - Drama, Poetry, Prose, and Fiction.
Scope
The database includes publications on the British Victorian period from about 1830 to the beginning of the War in 1914, which marked the end of what Walter E. Houghton calls the "late Victorian frame of mind."
It includes approximately 65,000 books, periodical articles and dissertation abstracts published from 1970 to 1997, and review citations of books published from 1995 onward.
Publications on the British Colonies are included in the database if they are on political and administrative matters, or if they have a bearing on the cultural relationship between Great Britain and her colonies during the period. For example, articles on "The Canadian Rebellion Losses Bill of 1849 in British Politics" and "English Christianity and the Australian Colonies, 1788-1860" are included, but an article of local interest, for example, "The First Epidemic of Asiatic Cholera in Lower Canada," is omitted.
For authors whose works overlap the beginning or end of the Victorian period, only those publications are included which have bearing on the period. For example, publications on Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Nostromo (1904), written within the coverage period (1830-1914) are included. On the other hand, some publications on works like Malthus's Principles of Political Economy (1820) are included because they have a significant bearing on the political and economic thought of the Victorian period.
Reissues of Victorian works are included if they contain new critical or textual notes. Facsimile reprints, reprints of serial editions and first editions are also included. Reports on meetings and discussions, editorial notes, and correspondence are generally excluded.
For more information on the contents of the Victorian Database Online, visit the LITIR Homepage.
A beta version of the database will be available from January to April 1998 free for testing purposes. For more information on the availability of the Victorian Database Online, please contact:
Litir Database
c/o Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E5
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Business Office: 403-432-7116.
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For more information on the availability of this database in other formats, please see the Litir Database on Victorian Studies website.
In its current beta or test phase, the database records are stored in a single Microsoft Access file. Connection to the Web, including results generation and print/download functionality, is provided by a series of applications using Cold Fusion, a Web application server technology available from Allaire. (For more information about Cold Fusion, please see the Allaire site at: http://www.allaire.com.)
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