Search improvements
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16 votes
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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.
6 votes -
Exact search - not exact
Great site, great info - poor search. Exact search = not exact!
2 votes -
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.
7 votes -
Get an OCR that actually works! Can't BNA figure that out?
Replace your garbage OCR with something that actually works! A search for “Shower of Ants in Cambridgeshire” failed because the OCR rendered the text into this gibberish: "Pr.ov Lm CA A phenomenon lin jun occu rredat the • tars VM S orr A closet was &served to be peeling over, w anddeinis to bo eatoulatment of the villagers. It wee .eve to be auto and stattlar winged leant& Pe. pis and the grand snietheved with then, awl they swarmed in milli se. glory step taint .gushed hued ells of than."
7 votes -
Replace the OCR engine
It's well past time that the OCR engine was replaced with one fit for the 21st Century.
The present one omits thousands, if not millions, of random words for no obvious reason, and not because the image is flawed, and often ignores the column boundaries. On many pages the OCR result is missing completely.
A modern fit-for-purpose OCR engine would make a massive improvement.1 vote -
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?
2 votes -
Perhaps a search engine that isn't incompetent?
Using the advanced search and with Exact search ticked for Mourne and Croft in "Search all words" and mourning in "Exclude words" brings up no results at all.
I wish there was a decent alternative to your dismal service.
1 vote -
remove highlighting of search term before saving article?
remove highlighting of search term before saving article?
1 vote -
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.
4 votes -
numbers of articles
It would be most helpful to have some kind of running total of the numbers of articles consulted/saved
4 votes -
Moving the window "Article text, suitable for copy and paste"
How do I move the window above out of the way of the image behind it? I want to move it onto a second screen and enlarge it, to make it easier to edit the text. It only seems to slide up and down, and can't be dragged left or right.
1 vote -
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
1 vote -
OCR causes many terms to be impossible to search properly
I am doing research into the early years of The Vegan Society. If you search for the word "vegan", you get so many poor OCR-based matches that it becomes extremely arduous to get results actually about veganism.
I would wager this is the same for a great deal of other words.
1 vote -
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.
1 vote -
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 -
Make the town of Largs searchable
Cannot search Largs without returning “large”
Useless1 vote -
why does your search return non relevant information
minimize search to relevant requests only
2 votes -
Fix the advanced searching
Advanced searching doesn't work at all. This is ridiculous. I can't find what I am after because the search results are complete garbage!
11 votes -
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.
4 votes
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