NLM History of Medicine Finding Aids

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Where should I go for help</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="search"> <h2>How do I search for materials?</h2> <ul> <li>Begin a basic search by entering your search terms in the search bar. You may limit the search by searchable fields, record type, and date.</li> <li>The searchable fields are: <ul> <li>Keyword: Searches the entire text of the finding aid.</li> <li>Title: Searches titles of the materials described, including records, series, and files within collections. If you know the precise title of the material you're looking for, searching by title can be very helpful.</li> <li>Creator: Searches names of the persons, families, and organizations who created the collections.</li> <li>Subject: Searches by subject headings assigned to materials by archivists, e.g. "Ambulances".</li> <li>Identifier: Searches by identifier, which is a unique number by which materials are tracked and requested.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Record types allow you to customize the type of records you want a search to return: <ul> <li>Limit to collections will only return records for collections, rather than people, subjects, series, and files.</li> <li>Limit to digital materials will only return records, folders or items that contain digital materials.</li> </ul> </li> <li>You may select a date range to limit the search results chronologically. Searching by date is approximate, and results may fall outside the date range you enter.</li> <li>You may construct a more complex search by selecting the + icon and adding additional search parameters.</li> </ul> </div> <div id="digitized"> <h2>How do I find digital items?</h2> <ul> <li>To browse a full list of all digital items, click the Digital Materials tab on the top navigation bar. <br/> <img src="assets/images/coll-digital.png" alt="get it example" style="padding-bottom:1em;"/></li> <li>To browse digital items within a collection, click the blue View Digital Material pill logo; the blue pill will not appear if no digital items are present within a collection.<br/> <img src="assets/images/digital-pill.png" alt="get it example" style="padding-bottom:1em;"/></li> <li>A file image icon adjacent-left to a component level title within the collection organization tree also provides a visual cue indicating the presence of digital items.<br/> <img src="assets/images/digital-cue.png" alt="get it example" style="padding-bottom:1em;"/></li> </ul> <div id="advanced"> <h2>What should I know about phrasing my searches?</h2> <ul> <li>Searches are not case sensitive.</li> <li>You may search for exact phrases by including quotation marks (e.g. "yellow fever")</li> <li>By default, searches with three or fewer search terms return results containing all of the search terms. Searches with four or more search terms return results containing most of the search terms. You may add OR and NOT to change this behavior (e.g. aids OR cancer or pandemic NOT fever).</li> <li>You may add a tilde (~) to search for search terms within a specified number of words of one another (e.g. "business doctor"~5 will return results where the term "business" occurs within 5 words of the term doctor).</li> <li>Wildcard symbols ? and * help return a greater number of relevant results by searching for variant spellings and forms of search terms simultaneously. <ul> <li>? replaces a single letter in a search term (e.g. searching colo?r will returned both color and colour).</li> <li>* replaces any number of letters at the end of a search term (e.g. searching educat* will return educate, educated, education, educational, and educator). </li> <li>? and * may <strong>not</strong> be used as the first character of a word. </li> <li>To use a wildcard in combination with another search term (e.g. wom?n physician), use the + icon to create another row and enter each search term in a separate row.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="filter"> <h2>How can I filter my search results?</h2> <ul> <li>Once your results have been returned, you can use the filter pane on the right side of the page to further limit and customize search results.</li> <li>You may use the filter pane to filter by record type, subject, and name.</li> <li>You may also use the search bar at the top of the filter pane to create additional searches within the search results.</li> </ul> </div> <div id="navigate"> <h2>How do I navigate this website?</h2> <p>To begin a search, use the search bar on the home page.</p> <p>To browse a list of collections related to Prints and Photographs, Audiovisuals, or Archives and Modern Manuscripts collections, click the Collecting Areas tab.</p> <p>To browse a full alphabetical list of collections, click the Collections tab.</p> <p>To browse a full alphabetical list of digital objects, click the Digital Materials tab.</p> <p>To browse a full alphabetical list of subjects, click the Subjects tab.</p> <p>To browse a full alphabetical list of names, click the Names tab.</p> <p>For help and FAQs, click the Help tab.</p> <p>You can return to the home page at any time by clicking the Home tab.</p> </div> <div id="request"> <h2>How do I request materials?</h2> <p>Click on the Get It button at right, to be connected to the LocatorPlus Catalog, where you can create an account and sign in to request materials for delivery to the Reading Room.<br/> <img src="assets/images/getit-icon.png" alt="Request icon" style="padding-bottom:1em;"/> <br/> Collection Get It view example in LocatorPlus:<br/> <img src="assets/images/get-it-primo.png" alt="get it example" style="padding-bottom:1em;"/> <br/> For more information about LocatorPlus, please consult <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/catalog_help/index.html">LocatorPlus Catalog Help</a>.</p> <p>For items that are not available for immediate circulation, please contact the onsite reference librarian or the NLM Support Center for status information or other options.</p> <img src="assets/images/unavailable.png" alt="unavailable request" style="padding-bottom:1em;"/> <p><strong>Collections stored offsite require 30 days prior notice for retrieval.</strong> Retrievals are made the last Friday of the month. Contact the <a href="https://support.nlm.nih.gov/">NLM Support Center</a> for scheduling.</p> </p> </div> <div id="coverage"> <h2>Does this website include all archival collections?</h2> <p>This website does not include all the materials held in any of the Collecting Areas. Many collections are unprocessed, and therefore no online finding aid is available.</p> <p>See the related <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html">History of Medicine websites</a> for accessions lists, more information, or search LocatorPlus.</p> </div> <div id="glossary"> <h2>Glossary of terms and symbols</h2> <p><strong>Archives</strong> are materials created or received by a person or organization in the conduct of their affairs and preserved because of the enduring value of the information they contain or as evidence of the functions and responsibilities of their creator.</p> <p><strong>Collections</strong> are groups of materials assembled by a person, family, organization, or repository. They can be divided hierarchically into series, groupings, and files.</p> <p><strong>Digital records</strong> are born-digital and digitized materials that are available online.</p> <p><strong>Finding aids</strong> allow users to discover, understand, and access the materials. Finding aids describe the creation, arrangement, content, and context of collections. Most finding aids on this website contain descriptions on collection-level (also known as fonds-level). These descriptions give you the most general overview of the collection or archive. You can find this in the <strong>Collection Overview</strong>. Click <strong>Expand all</strong> to see the whole collection overview. Some finding aids on this website will also contain a hierarchical structure with item-level descriptions. Click <strong>Finding Aid View</strong> to scroll through the items. </p> <p><strong>Name records</strong> are the people, families, and organizations that create collections. On this website, users can view name records to see all of the materials created by a person, family, or organization.</p> <p><strong>Subject records</strong> are topics, places, and genres used to describe the context and content of the materials. On this website, users can view a subject record to see all of the collections relating to that topic, place, or genre.</p> <br/> <p> <img src="assets/images/getit-icon.png" alt="Request icon"/> <br/> Use the <strong>Get It</strong> button to place a request for the selected material. For more information about requesting material, see the requesting materials section above.</p> <br/> <p> <img src="assets/images/citation.png" alt="Preferred citation"/> <br/> Use the <strong>Citation</strong> button to generate a formatted citation for the material you are viewing. Citations can be generated at all levels of a finding aid, including at the folder or item level. Consult the citation style for your academic discipline.</p> <br/> <p> <img src="assets/images/pdf.png" alt="Download PDF icon"/> <br/> Use the <strong>Print</strong> button to access a fully formatted PDF of a finding aid.</p> </div> <div id="questions"> <h2>What if I have questions? 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