The advantage is the ability to search the subject listing and find related material grouped together. Depending on your search strategy, it may mean items appear twice in the search results. The size of this database precludes a massive edit to regularize such anomalies , so f or the foreseeable future, this artifact of the print world will remain in the online database. In some cases, subject terms could be improved or changed. As this online version is refined, changes, addition of terms, and editing will be done.
Suggestions are welcome.
This on-line index is designed to allow searching on author, title words, publisher or source information, and subject headings. The design allows the use of Boolean logic, and concurrent searching of fields. For example, the search illustrated will locate any item by Westfahl AND published in Foundation magazine. A recommended search strategy is to use both the subject and title fields to obtain the most complete coverage of a topic. Searches for multiple related terms may be done by entering segments of the word as your search string.