Instructions on Searching MAPS library

Principles of the search engine

  • Searching is not case-sensitive, unless the option "Exact" is checked.
  • In words containing "TeX" (e.g. "LaTeX", "ConTeXt"), the letters "T" and "X" must be written as capitals, to avoid confusion with e.g. "text" or "texture".
  • The search runs on the whole search string, not any individual words in it. In other words, there is no implicit "AND" function.
  • In case the option "Exact" is checked the search engine will look for exact matches of the search string. If "Exact" is not checked partial matches (search string is substring of a word in the database) will also be listed. E.g. is the search string is "europe" then "European" will be considered a match if "Exact" is not checked.
  • You can use "OR" to separate multiple search strings of which at least one must be found.
  • The character "+", ".", "*" etc. have no special meaning like in regular expressions.
  • Referenties to PDF files of matching items may not work in case the items are less than one year old. It's NTG's policy not to publish such recent items online.
  • The button "Search" starts the search for the given search string, which must not be empty. The button "List" starts the search where the search string may be empty, in order to find "everything".

Options

  • A search can be performed in all fields of an item, or in only one, e.g. "author".
  • The search can be limited to specific types of items, such as "article", "book" or "proceedings".
  • All items published by NTG since 1998 (founding year) uptil now can be searched.
  • The results will allways show "author", "title" and "year", and optionally fields such as "keywords" and "abstract".
  • The results can be sorted in several ways. "xmlid" is the sequential number within one publication.
  • The results can be presented in HTML (as a regular web page), BibTeX or XML. Optionally the results can be sent as a file, so you can easily save them.

Examples

Find all articles written by van Kees van der Laan:
Search for: Kees van der Laan
Search in: authorr
press Search
Find evrything published in MAPS 9:
Search for: 9
Exact: on
Search in: MAPS volume
Sort by: xmlid
press Search
Get a BibTeX file of the complete MAPS bibliography:
Search for: [ empty ]
Search in: all fields
Sort by: xmlid
Output format: bibtex
Send as file: on
press List
Find all articles written in English:
Search for: EN
Search in: language
press Search
Find everything published in proceedings:
Search for: [ empty ]
Limit to items of type: in proceedings
press List