Periodicals Search Results

You can view your results following a Periodicals Search at either issue level or record level, with the issue-level list being the default option.

Periodicals Search Results - Issue-level

The issue-level Periodicals Search Results page displays the results of your search. 20 results per page are displayed. Additional matches can be accesses using the "Page(s): 1 | 2 | 3" navigation.

The issue-level Search Results page contains the following information:

• Your search terms/criteria and the number of issues retrieved.
• Number of results displayed.
• Details of matching records, including Title, Reel position, Issue number and Date of issue.

You can jump to a particular record by entering the relevant number into the 'Go to record no.' search box and clicking 'Go'.

If you are also subscribed to Literature Online, you can access Author pages from Literature Online where these are available for authors in EEBO. Simply click the 'Author page in Literature Online' link next to an entry in the Search Results- the Literature Online Author page for that author will open in a new window, with EEBO remaining open in the original window.

By default, records are shown as separate issues with earliest issues first. You can choose to change the sort order by selecting an option from from the 'Results displayed as' drop-down list and clicking 'Go'. You can choose to display results as separate issues with earliest or latest issues first, or as records sorted alphabetically by periodical title, or as records with the earliest date of first issue first.

Next to each matching record there will be icons representing the forms that the record is available in:

Periodicals Search Results - Record-level

The record-level Periodicals Search Results page displays the results of your search. 20 results per page are displayed. Additional matches can be accesses using the "Page(s): 1 | 2 | 3" navigation.

The record-level Search Results page contains the following information:

• Your search terms/criteria and the number of records retrieved.
• Number of results displayed.
• Matching records, which includes Title, Imprint and overall date range.
• Below each periodical record is a link which allows you to show/hide all issues of the periodical in question which match your search. Click the plus icon to show all matching issues; the display will then expand to show further information for each issue, including the bibliographic number, issue number and date, and the icon will change to a minus icon. Click the minus icon to collapse the display.

You can jump to a particular record by entering the relevant number into the 'Go to record no.' search box and clicking 'Go'.

By default, records are shown as records with earliest date of first issue first. You can choose to change the sort order by selecting an option from from the 'Results displayed as' drop-down list and clicking 'Go'. You can choose to display results as separate issues with earliest or latest issues first, or as records sorted alphabetically by periodical title, or as records with the earliest date of first issue first.

Next to each matching record there will be icons representing the forms that the record is available in:

Zero (0) hits for your search.

There may be many reasons why the search results did not return any hits.

• Please check your spelling.
• Check that you have entered the term(s) in the correct search field.
• Your institution may not be subscribed to all EEBO subsets. To check your subscription detail please click here.
• There are certain circumstances under which searches may fail, for example if you select a very large number of terms from a browse list.