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SEARCH BY DATE
The advanced search form of the database offers several possibilities for confining an enquiry to a certain date or period.
The search for all dates is the default setting.
If you would like to limit your search to a particular date, please select one of the following options:
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Exact
date
Enter the desired date in the checkboxes.
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Before
Enter a date in the checkboxes to find all documents dated before your chosen
date.
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After
Enter a date in the checkboxes to find all documents dated after your chosen
date.
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Between
Enter two dates in the checkboxes to find all documents in the timeframe
defined by the dates in the two checkboxes.
In addition to these, there are two further options available that can be activated or deactivated via a checkbox:
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Include
documents with inexact dates
Many documents in the database comprise a timeframe defined by two start/end
dates. The start/end dates are labelled exact date, inexact dates are all
dates within this timeframe in a given document.
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Include
documents with no known publication date
When you
activate this option, combined searches with this date and another search term
will always also include relevant documents that have no document date.
If several dates are given in a document, all these dates will be evaluated for the search. However, on the results list, only the first date mentioned in the document will be displayed. This can give the impression that the list contains apparently irrelevant hits from your search by date. By opening the respective document you will find that it includes more than one date and that the date you are searching for will be among them.
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