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3. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below First reference-point for medievalists to current scholarship 300,000 unrivalled records of articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies 15,000 new entries each year, each entry fully classified quarterly updates covering publications from 1967 to 2002 inclusive greatly reduced time between the classification of records and their availability. IMB-Online appears 6 months ahead of the printed version of the IMB a comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system, using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists 120,000 index terms, classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.) worldwide network of fifty teams to ensure regular coverage of 4,500 periodicals and a total of over 5,000 miscellany volumes the only truly “international” bibliography for the Middle Ages, covering publications in over 30 languages General Information General features :

4. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below General Information From 2001 onwards a major new programme of enhancements has started for the IMB. The principal new features comprise: online access besides consultation on Cd-Rom searching by a standard browser-interface (Internet Explorer) enhanced searching possibilities: o free search across all fields o hierarchical index searching by periods or centuries o hierarchical index searching of a controlled vocabulary of subjects o separate index of places and regions o separate index of persons and texts o separate index of manuscript schelfmarks multilingual thesauruses to support searches (for places and persons who are known under different forms restricting searches by the languages of the works catalogued (initially for English, French, German, Italian, Danish-Norwegian-Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian,, Portuguese-Galician, Russian, Spanish-Catalan, Welsh and Latin) ISBNs searchable search history function. coverage of periodicals What’s new :

5. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below General Information Scholarly responsability : The International Medieval Bibliography, the world’s leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages, from the International Medieval Institute at Leeds Parkinson 1.03 University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT, U.K. Email: his6imb@leeds.ac.ukhis6imb@leeds.ac.uk

6. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below General Information History The International Medieval Bibliography is today recognised as the leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 450-1500). It was established in the mid-1960s by IMI with the support of the Medieval Academy of America to provide a current bibliography of articles from periodicals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, Festschriften or collections of essays). It has been published since 1968 and in the intervening period has catalogued and classified over 300,000 medieval records. An electronic version has been available since 1995. The records are drawn from the regular coverage of over 4000 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volumes over this thirty-year period. Not only does the IMB provide full bibliographical information to the records from the publications, but it provides a comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system to assist the user in identifying all relevant records. A unique network of over 50 specialist contributors and teams throughout the world ensures regular coverage of articles in journals and miscellanies from the Americas, Europe and the Pacific.

7. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below General Information Readership & Content The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include: Classics – particularly late Patristic, insular and medieval Latin and the works of the early humanists. English Language and Literature – from old and Middle English texts, to their analogues or sources in other European languages, and the cultural context of literary works. History and Archaeology of Medieval Europe (c. 400-1500) – all sub-disciplines, and for all areas of Europe. History of Education (early schools and medieval universities). ·Modern (European) Languages and Literatures – the origins of the language and pre-modern literature in that language. ·Theology (late Patristic to early Reformation periods) and Philosophy (from neo-Platonism to Humanism). Art History: from classical art and architecture to the Renaissance – Music: early music Theatre and Performance Arts: early drama, and other performance and recreational arts (including sports) - Rhetoric and Communication Studies. The IMB is the first reference point for any medievalist, from the high school or undergraduate student to the most senior scholar.

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9. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Quick Guide (search screen) Search terms can either be keyed into the search fields directly, or chosen from the browse listsbrowse lists Press to start search or use the enter button Changes the language interface (English, French or German) The “precise range” only allows searches by one or more centurys. The “rough range” will also include records with a general interest.

10. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Quick Guide (search screen) = number of search results for every single search field Press to display resarch results = final number of search results

11. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Quick Guide (hitlist) Remove and tick the boxes to make a selection To browse To give more detailed information Use the buttons to change the sort order of the hitlist

12. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Quick Guide (view document) Final result screen Gives full bibliographical details on each of the articles found Use the navigation buttons to browse

13. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below More complex searches Browse List The hierarchical index tree Boolean operators in the search fields Boolean operators between the search fields Coverage Export the results

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15. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Browse List Instead of typing a word in the search field one can also question the Browse List

16. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Browse List (line and wordlist) Some search fields have two browse lists : a line and wordlist -a linelist is an index of every entry (e.g. “The account book of Beaulieu Abbey”) -a word list is an index of every single word (e.g. “The”, “account”, “book”, “of”, “Beaulieu”, “Abbey”) Browse the list by using the position field or navigation buttons Select a term or double click to insert the word as a search criter

17. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Browse List (line and wordlist)

18. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below The hierarchical index tree

19. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below The hierarchical index tree The hierarchical lists by subject, place and date form a Table of Contents. Click on the icon to go to a deeper level.

20. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below When clicking on the underlined terms it will be copied in the appropriate search-field or you will go directly to the individual record The hierarchical index tree

21. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below The index terms of level three correspond with “specific subjects” of the search field The hierarchical index tree =

22. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Boolean operators in the search field

23. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Boolean operators in the search field When the cursor is placed in a search field, you can formulate any simple or complex question with Boolean operators ( “and”, “not” & “or”) and brackets

24. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Boolean operators in the search field View document : The words of a search query are being highlighted

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29. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below Coverage “Coverage” lists all the journals in which relevant material on the Middle Ages was found and catalogued. A list of all sources (miscellanies inclusive) can be consulted with the “publications” button on the search screen.

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31. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below To export results Press to export the selected records. You can chose a csv. format or a html format. (no more than 250 records will be exported) In the settings screen you chose what fields need to be exported

32. More complex searches Quick Guide General Information To continue : click on the forward button below To export results Export as.csv (can easily be imported in a database) Export as.html (can easily be imported in a word processor) Chose the directory where you want to save the file