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World Thought in Translation

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User Guide

How to Use World Thought in Translation Digital Library

What Can I Do on World Thought in Translation?
   • Search Content
       • Advanced Search
       • Boolean Search
   • Browse
   • Document Viewer
       • Document Viewer Toolbars
       • Image Viewer Panel
       • Text Viewer Panel
       • Document Info Panel
My Library
   • My Library Home
   • Notifications
   • Library
   • Community Pages
   • My Annotations
   • My Tags

What Can I Do on the World Thought in Translation website?

Search Content

Use advanced search features to locate documents by a range of biographical criteria.

Advanced Search

The Advanced Search is the default option when navigating to the search page via the Search tab on the top navigation bar.

When you navigate to the search page, you will see by default a search box with a keyword search box underneath to search by two criteria.

To add search fields, click the “+Add Search Field” button. You can also choose to limit this search to specific fields of information, like author names or titles, or employ Boolean search operators operators by opening dropdown menus adjacent to each search field. For a brief introduction to the Boolean operators used on the World Thought site, see Sphynx Search.

Descriptions of available search refinements found within the search bars’ dropdown menus follow:

All: The search term can appear in any context (unconstrained)

Annotations: The search terms can only appear in a document’s public annotations

Authors: The search term can only appear in a document author’s name

Publication dates: The search term can only appear in a document’s date

Text: The search term can only appear in a full-text transcription or translation

Titles: The search term can only appear in a document title

ID#: The search term can only appear in a document’s ID#

Recipients: The search term can only appear in a document’s recipients

Subjects: The search term can only appear in a document’s subject designations

Add filters to search results with Search Options located below the search bar that are described below:

Dates: Limit results to documents within a specified date range

Subject: Limit results to documents within a limited list of subjects

Names: Limit results to documents containing names from the available selection

Collections:Limit results to documents within specific collections in World Thought in Translation’s library. These include: titles within New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness, Initiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence, The Art of Peacemaking: Political essays by István Bibó, and Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909.

Once you have conducted an Advanced Search, your search results will appear in the central panel of the screen. This table provides basic bibliographic information about each document. You can see a preview of specific documents from the result list in the right-hand panel by clicking on items in the list. If the result list has multiple pages, a navigation tool will appear above the result list.

The list of results can be re-sorted by alphanumerically prioritizing Alternate Title (Alt. Title), Author, Contributing Author (Contrib. Author), Publication Date, Relevance, Subject, Title, View Count (# of Views), and Page Count (# of Pages).

In the left-hand panel, the filter options available in the Search Options section of the Advanced Search landing page are relisted for quick application of new filters to the search at hand. Clicking these filters will run a more refining search.

Finally, once satisfied with your search results, you can open a document by clicking its title or thumbnail image.

You can also generate citations for search results by checking the box for one document and clicking the “Export” buttons above the result list as appropriate.

Click “Save” to save one or more documents into your library.

Boolean Search

Users can employ Boolean search operators by selecting the Boolean search radial option on the Current Search tab. The Boolean search tool allows you to search the database with such operators as:

  • & (AND). Entering the search query Hello & World will bring up all search results that contain both the word "Hello" and the word "World". The AND operator is the default operator, so typing Hello World into the search box will produce the same result.
  • | (OR). Entering the search query Hello | World will bring up all documents that contain either the word Hello or the word World.
  • ! (NOT). Entering the search query Hello !World or Hello -World will bring up all documents that contain the word Hello and do not contain the world World.
  • MAYBE. Entering the search query Hello MAYBE World will bring up all documents that contain the word Hello and all documents that contain the words Hello and World.
  • @! (Ignore Field Search Operator). Entering the search query @!title Hello World will ignore all documents that contain the words Hello and World in the Title field.
  • ~ (Proximity Search Operator). Entering the search query "Hello World"~10 will bring up all documents that contain the words Hello and World within ten characters of each other.

For more resources related to the Boolean operators used on the World Thought in Translation site, see http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#boolean-syntax. Some additional helpful resources for Boolean search can be found at http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=36863&sid=271372 and http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/advsearch.html.

Browse

Browse Archive

Explore the works available in the World Thought site by viewing featured collections.

Navigate to the Browse landing page to view collections within World Thought in Translation. Click a book title in the left hand panel, a book cover under the “books” header, or a “START READING” button to open the collection’s homepage.

From the homepage, a summary of the collection is displayed over a table of contents with abstracts for each chapter of the book.

Document Viewer

Documents are viewed in the World Thought site’s document viewer. The document viewer allows you to see all images and text associated with the material you have selected to open. This section outlines the functionality of the document viewer, explaining each section as it appears on the webpage: toolbars, image panel, and text panel.

Document Viewer Toolbars

The document viewer toolbar appears above the text viewer and allows you to access the viewer’s functionality. You can save the current document to your personal library (accessible via the My Library page) or export/save a document citation. You can also switch the view between different combinations of image, translation, and transcription.

Text Viewer Panel

The text viewer panel displays the transcription and/or translation of a document in the World Thought site if available. The text viewer panel can either appear alone or side-by-side with the image viewer panel.

A list of buttons on the text viewer panel toolbar follows:

Font Size Decrease Button: decreases the size of the font in the text viewer

Font Size Increase Button: increases the size of the font in the text viewer

Bookmark Button: opens the dialog windows for creating a private bookmark referencing text selected by the user

Tag Button: opens the dialog windows for creating public or private tags referencing text selected by the user

Annotation Button: opens the dialog windows for creating public or private annotations referencing text selected by the user

Highlight Button: allows the user to highlight specific passages in the text viewer for private reference

More Button: opens a menu that allows the user to print, save, share, and cite the document

Document Info Panel

The Document Info panel provides metadata about the document being viewed as well as a space to review user-generated content like tags, annotations, bookmarks, and discussions related to the current document. It opens when its icon is clicked and when an annotation, tag, highlight, or bookmark is clicked. It is closed by clicking the “I” icon.

A list of menus within the Document Info Panel follow:

Document Details: displays bibliographic information about the open document

Tags: displays all the private tags that the current user has added to the document along with all public tags

Annotations: displays all the private annotations that the current user has added to the document along with all public annotations

Bookmarks: displays all the private bookmarks that the current user has added to the document along with all public bookmarks created by YUP staff

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My Library

Access your profile and manage interactions with other users.

My Library Home

The “My Library Home” page provides a summary of your recent activity. My Library is the site’s center for personalized content and community interaction. Here you can view notifications and manage your personal library of saved documents, tags, annotations, and searches, as well and manage private groups.

Notifications

The notifications area of the My Library page is where you receive updates from both administrators and fellow members of the site. Accessible via a tab on the left-hand panel, the Notifications cover such topics as additions to the digitized archive and other updates related to your personal account and/or the general functionality of the site.

Library

My Personal Folders

You are able to save documents to your personal library through both the search result and document viewer screens. Within search result page, you must click the check box next to the documents they wish to save and then click the “Save” button above the result list. The document viewer, also, has a button labeled “Save” on the toolbar just above the image/text viewing panels to access this same functionality.

You can access all of your saved documents via the Library tab in the left-hand navigation panel of the My Library page. Clicking on Library, and then on the sub-tab Personal Folders, brings you to a list of all of saved documents. You can store saved documents in folders, and sort then sort your document view by folder, by created date, by last update, or by document title.

See “Community Pages” below to learn how to join or create Private Groups.

Community Pages

Community Pages display information about how other users see you within the World Thought user community and also allow you to view what other users are researching.

My Profile

The My Profile displays the profile view that other World Thought users will see when you participate in the World Thought community through annotations, discussions or Private Groups. This page, accessible via the left-hand navigation bar of the My Library page, shows basic information (including name, email, school, address, etc…) as well as your subscribed Private Groups.

To modify information that appears on the “My Profile” page:

1. Click on the “Manage Profile” button in the top right corner of the screen.

2. Click “Edit”

3. Change the information as needed.

4. Click “Apply”

Private Groups

Please see the Private Groups Tutorials page for more information on Private Groups.

My Annotations

You can keep track of all of your annotations on documents via the My Annotations tab on the left-hand navigation panel in the “My Library” page. You can sort this view by Annotation, Document, Shared, and Date Created. You have the option of sharing annotations with other World Thought users by making personal annotations public. You can also delete Annotations by clicking on the box next to each annotation, and then selecting the delete button towards the top of the screen.

To edit an annotation:

1. Select the annotation to edit

2. The annotation will open up in the document viewer

3. Edit your annotation by changing the content or making it public

NOTE: Only personal annotations can be edited. Once an annotation has been made public, it is no longer editable. This is so that other users can reference your annotation. Be sure to review all annotations carefully before making them public. If you need to report an error, please contact support@worldthoughtintranslation.com.

My Tags

You can organize and manage tags on documents via the My Tags tab on the left-hand navigation panel in the My Library page. To run a search on a tag you have created, click on the tag name.

Saved Searches

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