Using the GALLOP Portal Sharing Best Practices for Effective Retrieval September 9, 2014 Valerie Footz Alberta Legislature Library

Scope Note Contributions vary by jurisdiction

Percentage of Contributed Items by Jurisdiction (August 2014)

Basic Search Searches all fields Click on logo to return to this page at any time Your feedback is important!

Results At a glance “geography” of results Navigation Result ranking based on location of and frequency of search terms Current search and item result

Subject headings Text summary drawn from first 350,000 characters (approximately 46,000 words) Links to full text

Records may have multiple full text items attached Some records may contain some textual problems which can pose problems when conducting searches

Advanced Searches Limits search to: Title Author Subject

Where to start? Basic Search – Keyword Advanced Search - All fields Advanced Search - Citation text 2,

Boolean Searches AND – default between terms – compensation remuneration OR – compensation OR remuneration NOT – compensation OR remuneration NOT indemnities Search strings – (member OR mla) AND salaries Compensation IndemnitiesRemuneration

Terminology Truncation/Wildcard - * – gambl* = gamble, gambling, Gamblin, etc. – parl*ment = parliament, parlement Phrases - Quotation marks for exact phrase – “electronic gambling” (guillemets do not work « langue parlee ») Near – “Term in quotation marks” ~# of words – order of terms does not matter – “electronic gambling” ~5

Fuzzy Searching / Variants in Spelling Kowalsky~0.1 = 31,290 Sokolsky, Kowalsky, Kurlansky, Kolausok, chronology, Sawatsky, quality, etc. Kowalsky~0.5 = 3,249 Kowalsky, Sokolsky, Kowalski, Kosatsky, Sawatsky, etc. Kowalsky~0.8 = 1,200 Kowalsky, Kowalski Kowalsky~0.9 = 77

Searching by Date You cannot sort results by date, but you can search by date. Try truncation – 201*

Serials Multiple dates on attached items causes problems for: sorting finding specific issue date range searching

Searching by Jurisdiction Limit to selected jurisdictions by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking

To Summarize Citation text = searching Author, Title, Subject only Use AND, OR, NOT (English operators must be used) Use parentheses in search strings * for truncation & wildcard “quotation marks” for phrase searching (not « guillemets ») To find words near each other, “electronic gambling”~5 Fuzzy searching – Kowalsky~0.8 Truncate date 201* to retrieve 2010 onwards Ctrl-click to select jurisdictions GALLOP Portal does not reflect the complete holdings of the contributing libraries!