Searching MELVYL: Stop Words

Scope

• Stop words are words that occur so often (eg. and, the, of) that they usually have little value for searching purposes.
• Such words also slow down searches for everyone on an OPAC because there are so many of the words.
  • In MELVYL the words designed stop words:
    • Cannot be used for searching except for exact searches.
    • Are ignored if you use them in your search request (except for exact searches).

    Example:

    • f tw old man and the sea is searched as:
      • f tw old man sea

The following are Stopwords used in MELVYL

NOTE: There are no stopwords for Personal Author, Uniform Title, or Exact index searches.

• Corporate Author and Corporate Name indexes stopwords:

  AND, AT, DE, DEPT, DER, DES, DI, ET, FOR, I, IN, INC, OF, ON, S, THE, TO, UND, Y

• Series index stopwords:

  A, AND, AT, DE, DEL, DEPT, DER, DES, DU, EN, ET, FOR, HIS, IN, LA, LE, LES, NO, OF, ON, THE, TO, UND, VOL, Y, ZUR

• Subject index stopwords:

  AL, AND, DE, ETC, FOR, IN, OF, ON, THE, TO

• Title index stopwords:

  AD, AL, AN, AND, AS, AT, AUF, AUS, BIS, BY, DA, DAS, DE, DEL, DEN, DER, DI, DO, DU, EL, EN, ET, FOR, FROM, HIS, IL, IM, IN, IS, IT, ITS, LA, LAS, LE, LES, LOS, OF, ON, OR, SUR, THE, TO, UN, UNA, UND, UNE, VOM, WITH, ZU, ZUM, ZUR. All single letters A through Z.

• Periodicals stopwords for PE and RPE indexes:

  A, AL, AN, AND, AT, BY, DE, DEL, DER, DES, DI, DU, EN, FOR, IN, LA, LOS, OF, ON, THE, TO, UND, ZUR

To: LT65 INDEX	To: GREENSHEET	To:	To: TOP OF PAGE:
So many urls. So little time. TM
(c) 1996-2003 - optimized for Netscape & 800x600 display