Search improvements
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When I am correcting the OCR attempt, is there a way of changing the point at which an article starts and stops please?
Reason for asking - I have hit instances where the top of one article has been subsumed into the bottom of an unrelated article, while the second half of the same article has been allocated to the start of a third article.
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Listen to suggestions
Listen to previous comments and do something about it . Blaming the print is not an option. After trying numerous variations I stumble on articles which have the my first search words clearly in the text. Why does it miss them on the first search? Now I find that it refuses to find the word it has found previously in any publication.
The Gale Archive was far from perfect but was significantly better than this. I rue the day my local library withdrew it and subscribed to you a service I cannot access from home for free but have to…1 vote -
Improve the search terms so that exact search mean exact search
I fail to understand the utter hopelessness of the Exact Search function. A small example - I search for Alfred King, and get any number of King Alfreds. Incredibly irritating and makes the site pointless. And surely easily remedied.
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Make the town of Largs searchable
Cannot search Largs without returning “large”
Useless1 vote -
Exact search - not exact
Great site, great info - poor search. Exact search = not exact!
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Download saved group as .csv
Emulate TNA Discovery! Allow saved searches to be downloaded as .csv or similar to enable users to organise their data and gain much more from it. TNA downloads lots of fields - BNA would only need about 5 to be amazingly useful.
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Include all available pages in search
In the refibe search > date panel some dates are not shown for some newspapers. However, the papers exist in the archive as they can be accessed by typing in the date and page number in the address bar. However, accessing the pages this way means it is not possible to download the pdf. Can you include all dates of available papers in the refine search section or allow downlaoding of papges acessed by typing date into address bar.
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numbers of articles
It would be most helpful to have some kind of running total of the numbers of articles consulted/saved
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export searches
Export newpaper, date, article title, abstract, group saved in, researcher comments into an .xls or .csv file for further analysis. I am a citizen reseasrcher not at an institution.
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In saved items, to be able to search on publication/date/other terms within the saved items
In saved items, to be able to search on publication/date/other terms within the saved items
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How can you search for articles in saved items
I have found lots of useful articles but when I save the paper to my Saved items when I go back to the paper the specific article is no longer highlighted. I can't find the articles. How can I search for a term again in the saved papers. It makes all the searching I did a waste of time and I have to do it all again?
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No easy access to the paper
You have no easy access to finding local papers in my search area , so frustrating. Don't I'll subscribe
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No easy access to the paper
You have no easy access to finding local papers in my search area , so frustrating. Don't I'll subscribe
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why does your search return non relevant information
minimize search to relevant requests only
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Show new registers how to use their 3 page free trial
I've just registered and for the life of me I cannot see how to access my free pages so I can decide if I'll subscribe.
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Browse from issue to issue within full screen
Browse from issue to issue, page to page, within full screen, as if you were -er - reading a newspaper. (A radical idea for software designers perhaps, but not for newspaper readers). The John Rylands Manchester Observer online does this without a hitch.
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The addition of an option to refine a search by page number
The addition of an option to refine a search by page number.
This would be of great assistance in refining search results when the information sought is always found on a give page of a given newspaper.
For instance, the local newspaper I view the most has only four pages with the local news I am interested being almost always found on the back/fourth page. And I'm sure it would be of assistance in others ways for other users too.3 votes -
Is there a way to report bad images ?
I should love a better image of The Morning Post 26 Jan 1904 page 5. The Munro story is unknown elsewhere and I cannot read most of this image.
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