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How to use the catalog:

Searching the catalog - please note the following:

• The search is case and word-order insensitive, but beware of spelling variants (British vs US, plural vs singular, original vs modernized, single vs double consonants).
• “All words” is the default setting in the drop-down menu, so by default the search engine will look at all the fields in the bibliographic records (author, title, abstracts, notes, subject headings etc.). If you get too many hits, you can narrow your search by selecting a specific field in the drop-down menu.
• The text of the article itself is not indexed in SOAR and thus is not searchable.
• The subject labels (or “tags”), a combination of terms derived from the Library of Congress subject headings and of specifically Oxfordian terms (e.g. “1000 pounds annuity”, “bearing the canopy”, “Gad’ s Hill incident”, or “monument theory”), are not displayed in the SOAR user interface but they are “in the background”; they are meant to help you find the relevant records: you can therefore use those tags to pull out records.  But be aware that the subject tagging of records is a huge endeavor and is not yet completed.
• At a later date, PDF files of the various subject tags used in SOAR will be available for download on the SOAR homepage.
• Search results can be displayed in several ways (“ITEM, LIST, SHELF” buttons appear on the top left of your search results). To sort your results by Author or Title select the LIST display. To view the records with notes, abstracts, text excerpts and links to the text displayed (when available), select ITEM. 
  

Search by:

• Author.

In the search window, type in the name (with or without uppercase):

• “Burris”, “Barbara Burris”, or “Burris Barbara”   =>  20 hits, including letters responding to her articles.
• To restrict your search only to articles she authored, click on drop-down menu, and click on “author”  => 14 hits.
• Click on the link(s) to get to the text of the article(s) you are interested in. 

• For articles published by the SOF and preceding or sister organizations, you will get directly either to (1) the text of the individual article (in PDF format) and/or to (2) the SOF web page where all past issues of the various Oxfordian publications are stored.  In the latter case, first note, in the SOAR record, the page number on which the article begins.  Then scroll down to the issue you are looking for, then skim the issue until you get to the starting page for the article.
• For articles published in outside newspapers, journals, etc., links will get you to the web page where the article can be accessed or purchased (e.g. Lexis- Nexis, Jstor, a publisher website, etc.).

(b) Topic:
In the search box, type in the keyword:

• “Ashbourne”  => 58 hits  (with default setting on “all words”)

To restrict your search, you can either

• click on “title” in the drop-down menu  => 41 hits

(Note: you will thus miss articles where the Ashbourne portrait is mentioned in the abstract or excerpt (and thus in the original article), but which do not include the word in their title)  Or,

• click on “subject” in the drop=down menu  => 20 hits

(Note: the subject-tagging of bibliographic records in SOAR is an enormous and on-going task, so that to-date not all records dealing with the Ashbourne portrait have yet been tagged in the subject field as Ashbourne-related.  Hence the fewer hits.)

(c) Title of article.
Select “title includes” in the drop-down menu and, in the search window, type in the keyword(s):.

• “Ovid”  => 6 hits

(d) Name of Publication (using shortcut codes listed the SOAR search page)
Go to the SOAR search page and find the code for the name of the Newsletter or Journal.  Type in the code (drop-down menu set to “all words”).

• “SAR_ALL” => 327 hits  (For “Shakespeare Authorship Review”)
• Narrow your search by adding the year of issue (no space):   “SAR1965”  => 22 hits
• Narrow it further with name of author:  “SAR1965 patience” (for Harold W. Patience)  => 2 hits
• “SOSN”  => 747 hits (for “Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter)
• “SOSN1988”  => 35 hits [NOTE: no space between SOSN and 1988]
• “SOSN1988 Moore”  => 5 hits (for Peter R. Moore) [NOTE: leave a space between SOSN1988 and Moore]

(e) Broad category of articles
Select "subject" in the drop-down menu and type in one of the following search words, in order to pull out all records thus labeled:

• “Conferences” (retrieves articles discussing or reporting on conferences or meetings) => 248 hits
• “News” (retrieves news about the authorship debate and/or about authorship society activities) => 539 hits
• “Obituaries” => 156 hits
• “Reviews” (retrieves book or film reviews) => 1287 hits

Printed Index

All the entries in SOAR that come from either an Oxfordian publication (i.e. Society newsletters, journals, etc. and/or collections) or a non-Oxfordian publication (newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.) are also available in printed form in the Index to Oxfordian Publications, edited by James A. Warren.

The printed index, now in its Fourth Edition (2017), also features a complete table of contents for each issue of any Oxfordian publication indexed, which provides readers with the opportunity to browse the history of the Oxfordian movement, issue by issue, over a span of nearly 100 years. Use the "Look inside" feature at amazon.com to preview the Index.