Accessing newspaper text

There are multiple ways of accessing the collection's texts from any area of the website. The first and most direct method of access from the collection's main webpage is shown below in Fig. 5:

Fig. 5: The browse link from the collection's front page

The browse pages can also be accessed from any of the search screens by selecting the browse tab in the navigation bar pictured in Fig. 6:

Fig. 6: The browse link on the navigation bar within the collection

The browse pages allow access to the page images of the newspaper, and also to text-only representations of the newspapers' full text.

Fig. 7: A sample section of the collection's browse access, with view text and view page images links shown. Also visible are links to calendar representations of the browse pages.

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The full text of the newspaper is also accessible as page images or text when performing searches of the full text or specific regions of the text. To access the page images through the search process, select one of the table of contents links pictured in Fig. 7 (see Getting started - search results for details on navigating through results).

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	Fig. 7: The table of contents links available when searching the collection from: a) the search results list, and b) from the item detail screen.

After accessing the table of contents, click the full text button on the right side of the text:

Fig. 8: View entire text and page images button.

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This button presents an HTML text representation of the full text of the newspaper for browsing. Navigation in the full text area is simple, particularly when looking for the occurrences of your search terms. Select the link at the top of the text shown in Fig. 9, and navigate to other instances of your term using the arrow links:

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	Fig. 9: Navigate to the first occurrence of the search terms using a), and to others using the arrow links shown on either side of the highlighted text (search term) in b).

Located within the HTML text are links to images of the acutal newspaper pages. You can find these links (see Fig. 10 for an example) at the point in the text where a page would be turned.

Fig. 10>: Example link to a page image for Page 1.

Once using the pageviewer search terms will no longer be highlighted. The images presented are resized in the JPEG 2000 format. In addition, it is recommended that the back button of your browser be used to return to the HTML text of the paper when desired.

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