Istat Library has an extraordinary wealth of digitized documents.
The digitization in PDF / A format allows direct full text search in documents.
- Activate the Digital Library function to search for these documents.
In addition to the free search based on metadata, which operates on the contents of the descriptive fields such as title, author, year of publication, publisher, SBN code, by checking the Full text search option in digital objects, the search works on all the terms contained in the PDF/A documents.
- The search can be carried out on an exact phrase, by inserting double commas at the beginning and at the end of the text searched.
As a way of example, if we are looking for a document that contains the following sentence in the text: “salute della popolazione nelle regioni italiane”
We get a monograph in return. To open the document, click on the item Digital object, then on the URL
Further, if we search in the text the sentence: “salute della popolazione nelle regioni italiane” using the browser’s “find” function we will find it on page 5 (the document totals 84 pages).
- The search can be carried out on single words in the text, not necessarily adjacent, omitting to insert double quotes in the search string. For example, suppose we are looking for documents containing the following four words in the text: foreigners resident in Emilia Romagna.
We obtain as a result 181 documents, each of which contains in the text all the words we have searched for, not necessarily written in the same sequence.
We can scroll through the list, select the documents we are interested in and reach the digital object in PDF format.
- The search can be performed both on exact sentences and on single words contained in the text.For example, if we are looking for documents that contain in the text the exact phrases “foreign families” and “Italian citizenship” and the words Emilia Romagna and work
We obtain 8 documents as a result, each of them contains in the text the phrases and words we have searched for.