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Searching Tips for OCLC Z39.50 Heritage of the Printed Book Database
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OCLCAuthoritiesLC |
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Depending upon your client, separate sessions may be required for each database.
For information on searching WorldCat, see Searching Tips for OCLC Z39.50 Cataloging.
Indexes in OCLC Z39.50 HeritagePrintedBook are word or phrase indexes. The following examples highlight the differences between them.
Phrase search
For a phrase search you enter the exact phrase. Omit initial articles. You can use right truncation if you know only a part of the phrase.
Catholic church. If you search for the Catholic church as a corporate name using a phrase search, entering catholic church retrieves records that contain the exact text catholic church (15 characters) in a searchable field/subfield.
Novum missale romanum. If you search for this type of prayer book as a title using a phrase search, entering Novum missale romanum retrieves records for the exact title Novum missale romanum (21 characters) in a searchable field/subfield.
Word search
For a word search you enter one or more words from the title. Omit articles and prepositions.
Catholic church. If you search for the Catholic church as a corporate name using a word search, entering catholic church retrieves records that contain both catholic and church somewhere within all the searchable fields/subfields.
Missale. If you search for this type of prayer book as a title using a word search, entering missale retrieves records that contain the word missale anywhere within the title, including: Missale; Missale, hoc est Cantica...; and Missale: Canon Missae.
The OCLC server supports the Z39.50 Scan Service capability. If your client supports that capability, you can browse indexes to view a list of the words or phrases included. When you want to use a phrase index, OCLC recommends browsing it first to verify the phrase before searching.
In word indexes. Stopwords (listed below) are words that are not included in word indexes because they occur frequently and do not add to the content of the indexes. Exclude stopwords from searches in word indexes. If you include a stopword in a word index search, the server returns an error message.
In phrase indexes. Include stopwords in searches of phrase indexes. However, exclude a, an, or the when it is the first word of a title.
| a | for | in | she | was |
| an | from | into | so | were |
| and | had | is | than | when |
| are | has | it | that | which |
| as | have | its | the | with |
| at | he | not | their | would |
| be | her | of | there | you |
| but | his | on | this | |
| by | if | or | to |
Include the following letters, digits, punctuation marks, and symbols in searches:
You do not need to capitalize names or other proper nouns in searches. All letters are treated as lowercase whether you enter them as lowercase or uppercase.
Exclude hyphens when they are preceded and followed by blank spaces. Include them within words, such as high-energy. Search for hyphenated words in various ways. For example: post operative, post-operative, postoperative.
When an ampersand (&) is preceded and followed by blank spaces, exclude it in word indexes but include it in phrase indexes. Include ampersands within words in word or phrase indexes. For example, enter at&t.
Substitute a space for a / (slash). For example, enter men women instead of men/women.
You may search with or without diacritics. For example, enter André Gide or Andre Gide.
Exclude other punctuation marks and symbols. Do not substitute a space for them. For example, to search for O'Hara, enter ohara.
Back to topThis table lists indexes that are specific to the Heritage of the Printed Book database. Information for each of these indexes is given below.
| Citation | Place of Publication |
| Country of Holding | Publication date |
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A number of WorldCat indexes are also valid for searching the Heritage of the Printed Book database. These indexes are listed here and linked to their description in Searching Tips for OCLC Z39.50 Cataloging.
For each index, the table below lists the combinations of Use and Structure attributes used to access the index through the OCLC Z39.50 server. The table also lists the MARC fields and subfields covered by the index. Where “word” is valid as a structure attribute, "word list" is valid as well.
OCLC provides a Test Server to assist users and system vendors with Z39.50 client configuration.
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5940/word, phrase |
510/ac |
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5978/word, phrase |
852/n |
Search using MARC21 country code |
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5966/word, phrase |
852/abe |
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59/word, phrase |
260/ae |
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30/word |
260/cg |
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Z39.50 Cataloging supports non-Latin scripts using either the MARC-8 or the Unicode UTF-8 character sets (see MARC-8 Note).
Four options are available. Note that fields may have a different overall appearance and 880 fields may not display in your particular Z39.50 client. See Z39.50 Configuration Guide for OCLC Z39.50 Cataloging for details on selecting an option.
Note: All records shown are MARC-8.
Include all data, with non-Latin scripts in the 880 field(s).

Include Latin script only [no 880 field(s)].

Include all data, with Latin script in the 880 field(s).

Include non-Latin scripts only [no 880 fields(s)].

Note: When the MARC-8 default is retained, UTF-8 characters that cannot be converted to MARC-8 are displayed as hexadecimal numeric character references (view example).