Search the Banks papers
Banks search guide
The following instructions will help you search for content and documents with the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks website.
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Searching
The default search is a basic keyword search. Each individual word is searched for anywhere in a web page or document. Searches are not case-sensitive. Results are ordered by the prevalance of the search term.
A list of See References is available to assist you in finding changes in terminology.
To perform a phrase search (words appearing in a particular order) use " " quotation marks around the phrase.
To find multiple word stems such as plurals, you can use an * asterisk as a wildcard. It will not work at the start of a word. You can also use the wildcard to truncate terms.
You can also use the basic boolean operators and or not. These operators can be used with ( ) brackets to create sets within a search.
Examples:
| Search Term | Type | Result |
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| Flinders maps | keyword | all pages containing the words Flinders and maps |
| "criminal court" | phrase | all pages containing the exact phrase |
| "10 July 1771" | phrase | all pages containing the exact date 10 July 1771 |
| "July 1771" | phrase | all pages containing the exact date July 1771 |
| map* | wildcard (stem) | all pages with words that start accordingly, for example map, maps, mapping, maple |
| col*r | wildcard (truncate) | all pages with words that start and end accordingly, for example colour, color, collector |
| "Aust* Aborigin*" | phrase and wildcard (stem) | all pages with phrases that start and end accordingly, for example Australian Aborigine, Australian Aborigines, Australian Aboriginal |
| charts and journals | Boolean and | all pages that include both words |
| charts or journals | Boolean or | all pages that include either word |
| charts not journals | Boolean not | all pages that include report but not journals |
| charts and (journals or diaries) | Boolean and, or | all pages with charts and either diaries or journals |
| (journals or diaries) not chart* | Boolean or, not and wildcard (stem) | all pages with either journals or diaries but not charts |
