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Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.

Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

Subjects covered include; advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, Pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.

Search tips:

• Basic Search Searching automatically includes the All-Smart Search (a rules-based search). Simply enter terms, or type in a more structured Boolean search. To search for specific terms, using the All-Smart Search:
  1. Select one or more databases from the selection area. Click Close Database Selection Area or Open Database Selection Area, as appropriate.
  2. Enter a word or phrase.
  3. Mark or unmark the full text search option: Also search within the full text of the articles, for extra results. (Choice available only for appropriate databases.)
  4. Click Start.

• When using the All-Smart Search query do not use truncation symbols or other special characters. The Wilson All-Smart Search query will automatically search those options. Simply type the word or phrase that you are interested in and click Start.
  Truncation Symbol: * (asterisk)
  Wildcards: ? (question mark)
  Wildcard Operator:
  Relational Operators: retrieves a term/number in a context/sequence
  Stemming: term as root retrieves word variations
  Truncation Symbol
  The truncation symbol (*) serves as a substitute for zero or a string of characters.
  For example the search:
  cat* retrieves catalyst, catatonic, as well as category
  m*cdonald retrieves both mcdonald and macdonald.

• Wildcards
  The wildcard symbol (?) serves as a substitute for a single alphanumeric character. It is particularly useful when you are unsure of spelling.
  For example, the search einst??n retrieves the correctly spelled einstein (albert einstein).
  When searching for SIC codes, which are 4 digits, use the wildcard symbol (?) to search ranges.
  For example, 12?? sic retrieves all available codes between 1200 and 1300.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter A and select Art Full Text.

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The creation of the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible (1611) was initiated by the newly crowned James I and carried out by scholars and clergymen in Oxford and Cambridge. The intention was to provide a single English language Bible founded on Greek and Hebrew originals which would be used throughout the whole Church. The King James or Authorized Version of the Bible became the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies.
The text of the ‘He’ version contained here, comprises the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. All introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables are included and fully searchable.

Search tips:

• Wherever possible King James Bible features the first authorized edition of any given literary work and preserves the spelling and punctuation of the copy text. Users should be aware when searching that the spelling of some words has changed and that a modern-spelling search term will not in itself be adequate to retrieve all the relevant results from historical texts. For instance, entering the search term virtue will not retrieve occurrences of vertue; sensibility will not match with sensibilitie or sensibillity, and honor will not pick up honour.
  King James Bible provides 2 ways to search for variant spellings:
  Using the ? or *characters, referred to as a wildcards. For example, v?rtue, hono?r or sensibil?it*.
  Alternatively, you can now use the new Variant spellings check box. If you enter a modern English word in the Keyword(s) in Work box and check the Variant spellings box, you will automatically retrieve all instances of your search term and its early modern variant forms in King James Bible. For example, if the box for Variant spellings is checked and you type the word soldier in the Keyword(s) field, when you submit your search you will retrieve all occurrences of the word soldier and its early modern variants such as soldiour, souldiour, souldyer, and sovldiovr.

• To list all texts containing a particular word: Enter the word in the Keyword(s) box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works containing your chosen word. To list all books containing a particular word: Enter the word in the book box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works with a title containing your chosen word.

• You can also use the drop down options to limit the search criteria to any of the following:
  Old and New Testaments
  Apocrypha
  Old
  New
  Biblical Text, Notes and Apparatus
  Biblical Text Only
  Notes and Apparatus Only
  

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