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Database

The database of Berlinische Monatsschrift holds the bibliographical data of 2.574 articles published from 1783 to 1811 in this periodical.

Search Fields

The search form on the left allows you to access the contents of the database using the search fields described in these search tips. You can, but do not have to, enter text into all fields. If you use more than one field, your entries will be interpreted as connected using the preselected operator from the menu "Boolean operator".
Example: You entered "aufklärung" in the search field "Keyword" and hit the "Search" button. You'll get a table of articles that contain these keywords within the bibliographical data set. You get the full bibliographical data by clicking on the hyperlinks within this table (the names of the article authors). From there you will have the option of displaying the article in full text ("Artikel im Volltext").

Keyword/subject heading

• Keywords are words appearing in the title of an article. Subject headings describe the article's contents. You can search for all words from the titles of the contained articles, as well as for subject headings referring to persons, geographical regions and other concepts indexed in the "Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften". Search terms can be entered in any sequence.

  Example: You are searching for: Aberglauben und Aufklärung

  Possible search entries: Aberglauben Aufklärung or Aufklärung Aberglauben. The boolean "and" operator will be working automatically. If you need another boolean operator, you should add it manually.

• Numbers that you entered will only activate a search for this particular number "string". As database entries vary and because there are digits as well as numbers in word form contained in the bibliographical records you might want to try both types for your search.
  

  Example: Maurerode 1783.

  If you've entered Maurerode siebzehnhundertdreiundachtzig,
  you won't get this title.
  It is therefore advisable in those cases to search using the following search request: Maurerode (1783 or siebzehnhundertdreiundachtzig).
  That way you will get titles containing 1783 or siebzehnhundertdreiundachtzig.

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Author/participant person

• You can search for article authors and other persons that participated in the creation of the articles, such as translators, compilers etc. There is an automatic right truncation in this search field. This automatic truncation method can be overriden by placing the name between quotation marks: "the name".
• The query format for names is: lastname, first name. Please note that first names have in most cases been abbreviated to the first letter. Therefore, it makes sense to use the automatic truncation.

  Example: schlegel, f

  This query generates as search results all articles authored by persons with last name Schlegel and a first name beginning with F.
  If you just enter schlegel , you will get all articles by persons with the last name of Schlegel, regardless of first name.

• If you're looking for an article by someone with a compound name, put a blank space between the compound terms.

  Example: horatius flaccus, q$

  This will find the odes of Horace.

• Queries for names of persons from dynasties, or from cultures that do not separate last and first names, can be entered in the normal word order.
  For instance, if you are looking for articles by Friedrich der Große, you could enter:

  Example: Friedrich Preu$en

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Year

• Within the query field Year you can enter the publication year of the article(s) you are searching for, in full format, i.e. 1783 (not 83) .

• If you don't know the year exactly, you can make your query comprise several years with the operator OR.

  Example: 1783 or 1784. You'll find all articles published in 1783 or 1784.

  If you're looking for still longer periods you can use the wild card indicator "?".

  Example:180? will find all articles published from 1800 to 1809.

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Half-year/Tables of contents

Here you can limit the search to one half-year volume.
This is also an easy way to reconstruct the tables of contents of the original print publication: Just enter the year and the number of the half-year volume from the selection menu.
You will get a complete table of contents of the original print volume.

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Search Results

Search results are given as a selection list of abbreviated bibliographical records. Hyperlinks lead to the full bibliographical data. Navigational Icons help you select between the different formats.

The selection list gives you a number of articles chosen in the drop-down menu "documents per page" (default value is 20). The display of selection lists gives you result item no., first author of the article, and article title.

The full bibliographical record gives you complete, quotable bibliographical data from the "Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften".
"Artikel im Volltext" loads the full text representation of the article into the frame on the right hand side of your screen.

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