Search improvements
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...just better searching please.
Make the search better. I often search on a group of words and despite using the advanced search function and putting the phrase into the correct field it doesn't always work correctly.
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window 8
It seems that I cannot load the text when using Windows 8. I can only download who pdf pages which I have to manually transpose into useable text. There will be more and more people using this operating this system. How about updating for us?
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Be able to only show article titles and dates without pictures or any content after a search
Article titles with content and pictures take up too much space in some cases. By providing an option to only show titles and dates it would be easier to select out the most promising articles.
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Stop automatically changing and to AND
The word 'and' forms part of many phrases and names. If I am searching for the Crown and Thistle PH I am only interested in the phrase, not every page that contains both words.
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Gaps in runs
Flag any missing editions (gaps in the collection) when you search a run of dates of a particular paper.
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Search on file name
After downloading the file is assigned a file number. It would be helpful to search using this number in order to get back to page on the site.
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RSS feed for search terms
An RSS feed for search terms, such as exists on the Australian Trove website, would be very useful. If it existed, I'd be notified automatically when new content appears which is relevant to my interests.
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Bookmarks are placed in Folders, but you can't go to a particular folder and search
You can place bookmarks into 'Folders', but you can't actually search these folders individually. A page showcasing your various folders would be handy.
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I've made suggestions before, though without feedback or apparent listening.
The Athenaeum
The Literary Gazette
It would be useful to nighthawks like me if you could provide a way which helps us distinguish exactly what has been added overnight. It would also be interesting to have some idea about policy for adding entire newspapers, once the odd year or two have been posted. It can sometimes be very frustrating just to have such tiny windows into particular localities, then have to wait months, if not years, before further years suddenly appear.
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2 votes
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Searching results in multiple pages highlighted
It is very frustrating when I search for some thing and the results flag up pages 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc in the one newspaper. Wading through every page to find what the summary result indicates 'should' be there takes hours. The highlighted search terms are very small and not that obvious. A tiny blue box on a large page is very hard to find sometimes.
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8 votes
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Selecting Dates
Make it easier to go to a required year rather than having to scroll through all years, and set the 'To' year for the publication date to the year specified in 'From' field thus reduce the amount of scrolling needed.
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Mark search results I have already viewed so it is more obvious
Allow a facility for the system to "remember" which pages I have previously looked at. By ticking that page, or some other marking.
48 votesOpen - Under review ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Great suggestion. If you are signed in, the system does know somewhere what you have already viewed, so in theory this is feasible…..
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Improved subject/person indexing
Improved indexing of subjects / prople in pages/editions
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List titles added the last 30 days in chronological order, not alphabetical
If the newspaper titles added during the last 30 days were listed in chronological order, rather than alphabetical, it would be a lot easier to keep track of titles being added from day to day. As it is now, that's almost impossible.
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After displaying (or downloading) a page , can that and the other pages seen be marked as such when returning to the results page.
After displaying (or downloading) a page , can that and the other pages seen be marked as such when returning to the results page.
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Search facility
At the moment search facility is only available for publication place or county (or title). By selecting one place or county in a area you are limiting your search and by not selecting a place you could end up with numerous entries to wade through. Would it be possible to add a facility for country ie Scotland, England etc. Sometimes the closest newspaper to the issue did not provide the best article.
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Weather
I'd love to be able to filter results by weather reports. I'm often trying to find what the weather might have been like on a specific day in a specific place - i.e was March 3rd 1922 war, cloudy, rainy, etc - so maybe results could be filtered to show just those columns and/or pages which have that weather info. It really helps give an extra touch of authenticity touch when writing up historic events. If it's possible to filter by advertisements, then why not weather?
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Yesterday's Additions
additions yesterday
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