#Database Search

[thatdevoteddeveloperguy7]

Gotta figure out how to find 4chan messages from their id numbers. That way I might satisfy my curiosity while I convince someone to read this slumbering masterpiece with tried and true quotes.

EDIT: This is from november 2023, I just forgot to post it.

I’ve found it.

The most accurate summary of Homestuck.

[jstor]

Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

[annabelle--cane]

hate to say it gang but every time I try to search a big fancy academic database for works that cover two or three intersecting topics to the exclusion of all others and inevitably wind up with the world's least useful search results, I do think to myself "godddd ao3's tag filtration system is so much better"

[butchvaderkin]

this is sooooo stupid but i cant stop thinking about it so here you go

[druggonaut]

Filetype: is very useful for piracy ;)

Oh also intitle:EXAMPLE is another way to force the search to contain a particular word or phrase and is naturally, also great for piracy.

So for example something like intitle:Neuromancer filetype:pdf will get you the William Gibson book for free :)

[everythingiisromantic]

helena finding out cobel has fully just been living next door to mark this whole time: fuck, that’s… a really good idea

[solradguy]

Please god is there like a sol radguy GG masterpost for Metal Gear Solid I can't keep going to the Fandom wiki for information I'm going to throw up like surely someone's put a bunch of links to the comic scans and fan translations and stuff all together in one place, right?

Right??

[elumish]

I've been mapping out different character tags I have for my book database because I'm in the process of trying to put it in a more user friendly format, and I have...so many.

[shoezuki]

doctor fic. to me

THATS REAL THO LIKE. GENUINELY THATS WHAT MY SEARCH HISTORY LOOKED LIKEEBSODNDVDHF

holdon hold on lemme see if i can go back in my history n find some cuz thats so real

found some from when i was writing chapter 6

[enchi-elm]

Right, gonna drop this into the ether just before bed and maybe someone'll see it who can solve this for me.

I swear--I have this in firm memory--that floating around the internet somewhere is a beautifully scripted text-based RPG called some variant of Guinevere where you play as Guinevere. (a few years ago, I dunno, 2019? Earlier?)

It is only text. It is the most lo-fi production ever, it is text on a slightly off-white background, and it was utterly transporting. There were paths that turned you into a powerful sorceress. You could be into Arthur or not, into anyone or not, you could go a magic route or a political power route or a "I just want to love someone and have fun" route, it was exquisitely done. 10/10 storytelling. It starts off the day you get married and follows your early life at Camelot.

And I bookmarked it because I got through two chapters of it and it was still under construction or something and I have lost the bookmark and both DuckDuckGo and the tumblr search engine are determined to keep me in the dark and to make matters worse, somehow there's now a Choices story about Guinevere and the only thing that's even remotely relevant that comes up as results are related to that app. But it wasn't an app! It was a browser-based text-based RPG and it was beautiful and I can't find it.

[blubbed]

u can tell a lot abt people by their google searches. not even like what they're searching about but how they search for it. like "horse lifespan" vs "how long horse live" vs "how long does a horse live?" or whatever

[mcyt-cats]

do you ever have to like. check references to remember cat names. or do you just have a mental database of every cc cat ever

Great question! For like the first two years of running this blog it was basically just a mental database. Like genuinely I just knew them. There's a few cats that I've always had trouble telling apart (like Minx's cats or Martyn's cats) but I used to be able to ID most of them off a photo without you even telling me which CC owned them.

These days it's a bit more to keep track of, I update this blog less often, and I spend less time stalking CCs on social media for cat photos. It is much more difficult for me to remember all their names. So right now, if I forget a cat name, I normally just search this blog for the CC name. My tagging over the years has benefitted me because it allows me to double check things very easily!

[hergrandplan]

i should get a wholeass euro anytime someone tells me that they asked chatgpt or whatever other AI. and they should pay me that euro personally

[neuxue]

I need AO3 search to allow window functions

[dykehelly]

btw menstrual cycle "syncing"/synchrony in humans has never been conclusively proven and most well-designed studies show it doesn't exist; it's likely that any anecdotal experiences of this are artifacts of people having variable cycle lengths that naturally will sometimes overlap and sometimes won't

[a-concert-just-for-me]

Me: Woah, based off the title, this journal looks like it would be a perfect source for my paper. May I see the article please, EBSCOhost?

EBSCOhost: Of course! Here you go!

Me: Oh! Um…thank you, but this is just the abstract…do you have the actual journal, too?

EBSCOhost: Oh. No. I don’t have it. Lmao. But here’s a link to the journal for you!

Me: Ah, cool, thank—Hey, this website wants me to pay $30 for this journal?

EBSCOhost: That’s my final offer. Take it or leave it. I cannot move mountains for you.

UPDATE: I figured it out. Everybody say “thank you jstor,” lmao