Search improvements
170 results found
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Obsolete Welsh County - Clwyd
The search facility only includes the obsolete county of Clwyd. The historical counties of flintshire and denbigh are ignored.
9 votes -
Better Drop Down Menus
Better drop down years. If you put 1914 in the first drop down menus the system should default to 1914 in the second
1 vote -
Search improvement
Better search selection. When selecting either a Publication place or title then restrict the Publication year to the dates that have been uploaded for the selected publication. Thus you should only be able to search in the appropriate range of a run of papers rather than searching and getting no results and wondering if it is the search term that is not located or if there is no papers in the area.
3 votes -
Search within page / edition being viewed
Search within page.
25 votes -
Search "Edit Article Text" and "Show Article Text"
Provide a search function in the "Edit Article Text" and in the "Show Article Text" so you can find the text you are interested in. This is especially needed on long articles as it it often difficult to find the text that you require.
4 votes -
semantic search which recognises surnames, places etc
The use of "" does not filter to surname only i.e. Brakes search comes up with all references to brakes.
11 votesOpen - Being developed ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We have had our first presentation back from one of the universities and we are prototyping an early version of this. However, this will be a long project!
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make bookmarked pages visible in results lists
It would be VERY helpful if previously bookmarked
entries were flagged up in search results (tags are already shown).At the moment there is no easy way of doing multiple overlapping searches and accumulating a "superset" of all the items you found, or telling if a new search has simply found an entry that a previous search had already found.
44 votes -
Remember my 'Sort results by' choice
I would like 'Sort results by' to be 'sticky'. I nearly always select 'Date (earliest)' but have to keep resetting after it goes back to 'Relevance'
Why is this text entry box only postage stamp size?
13 votes -
Email me when you add new articles that match what I've searched for
Like Genes Reunited's Hot Matches. I want to be told when you add something useful for me, so I don't have to try to find it myself.
29 votesOpen - Under review ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We will take a look a the feasibility of this – it is quite an Engineering challenge but we already have some pilot projects underway that may help with this.
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Allow users to search by title from main search box
Sometimes I search for a newspaper title in the search box like Dundee Courier. You should automatically pick up on this and forward me to the Dundee Courier browsing area instead of showing me instances when the name appears in a newspaper. That would be more useful
1 vote
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