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Searching Tips
- All pages are digitally scanned - primarily from microfilm, described, and automatically processed for full-text searching through a process called Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This text is organized in normal reading order (by column) and left uncorrected. Search strategies may take this into consideration (i.e., searching for shorter words and phrases when possible in order to maximize the number of search results returned).
- One helpful way to use the search feature is to enter a term or phrase containing many words that characterize the topic you wish to investigate. A search will then retrieve pages with similar passages, displaying thumbnail page images with red highlights visible representing the occurrence of searched terms. This visual interface allows for quick review of full pages and search terms to determine the most useful results to view at full-size. An alternate results list is available through the List view, which will display descriptive textual links to individual pages, where search terms will be highlighted in red wherever they occur on the page.
- Selecting a search result will bring up the newspaper page, initially displaying the full page. To read or view the page more closely, select the + or - to magnify the image, use the mouse scroll wheel, or simply click on the page image. Additionally, you can use the cursor to "grab" and move the image any direction within the page frame by clicking and dragging the image. To return to the original full-page display, select the "go home" icon on the floating navigation bar.
Browsing Tips
- Many browsers have the capability of tabbed browsing, which opens a new pane in the current window, either in the background or the foreground. Users of Historic Oregon Newspapers have reported this as a useful method of navigating through search results- bringing up each result in a new tab. This may be accomplished by clicking with the right-hand mouse button (for Mac, hold down the Command key) and selecting "Open Link in New Tab."
- In some newspapers in Historic Oregon Newspapers, issues or pages in logical sequence are not available digitally (usually because images were absent from the microfilm used for digitization). Whenever possible, any known information about these issues is provided, as follows:
- Not digitized, published
- Not digitized, not published
- Not digitized, publishing unknown
