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What's in the Archives ?
This site contains almost all of the textual content published
in the Anchorage Daily News, including:
- Local news stories published
in the Anchorage Daily News from January 1997 to the present.
- Local Sports, Obituaries, Letters to the Editor,
Announcements, etc.
- It does not contain photographs, graphics, charts,
national news stories or
advertising (classified or retail).
- Stories will appear in this database within
72 hours of publication in the print edition of the Anchorage
Daily News.
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What's not in the Archives ?
- Photographs, graphics, charts
- National News Stories
- Classified Ads
- General Advertising
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Who is in Charge of the Archives ?
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This site was created, and is maintained by Public Knowledge Systems, LLC. in Anchorage, Alaska.
If you have any problems or suggestions, please contact Public Knowledge Systems by Clicking Here.
All article content is the property of the Anchorage Daily News, and your
use of the articles is governed by ADN's User Agreement.
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Types of Searches
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There are four different types of searches you can perform on this
system:
The sections that follow present more detailed information on how
to perform each type of search.
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Basic Searches
To use the Basic Search screen, type your search term in the box, and
then click on the 'Search' button. Your search term can be either a
word or phrase. If your search term contains more than one word or phrase,
they must be combined by using one or more 'Connectors'.
Legal Connectors include AND, OR, NOT, as outlined below.
AND: Both words or phrases connected by AND must appear in the same article. For example: moose pass AND railroad
OR: Either (or both) words or phrases connected by OR must appear in the article. For example: unalaska OR dutch harbor
NOT: Articles containing the words or phrases after the NOT connector will not
be returned by the query. If you use NOT, always put it at the end of an expression. For example: to find articles about sled dogs but only
those that do not include the word 'Iditarod', you would type 'sled dog NOT iditarod'
You can create complex expressions by grouping logical expressions with parenthises. For
example: to find any article about illegal hunting of moose or caribou on the Kenai, you might
type '(moose or caribou) and (illegal or violation) and hunting and kenai'.
If your search returns more than 500 matches, you will see a message asking you to narrow the
search topic. You can typically narrow the search by including the NOT or AND connectors with additional
words or phrases. You can also go to the Advanced Search screen and filter your selection by date or
section of the newspaper.
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Advanced Searches
The Advanced Search screen allows you to use all of the Basic Search
functionality described above, as well as filtering by article
dates, sections of the newspaper, and performing proximity searches.
'Proximity Search' is the ability to find words or phrases within a certain
number of words from each other.
Do not use the 'AND' and 'OR' connectors unless you have the 'Optimize For' pull-down
set to 'Regular Text'.
Use the Optimize For pull-down to tell the
search engine what type of text you are searching for as follows:
- Regular Text uses the same method of searching as performed on the
'Basic Search' screen. The benefit of performing the search from this screen
is that you can also specify date ranges and newspaper sections.
- Person's Name is used to search for a particular persons name. The
name might be found in many different formats within the articles. For example,
JOHN S. SMITH or SMITH, JOHN S. or JOHN SMITH or SMITH, JOHN.
If you have the pull-down set to Person's Name, and type JOHN SMITH, you will find
any of the above combinations. The system actually finds where the two words are within 3
words of each other
- Words within X Words of each other these searches allow you to find words near
(in the proximity of) other words.
- Words within same Sentence/Paragraph these searches allow you to find words near
(in the proximity of) other words. This is particularly useful when you are searching for two
concepts or phrases that might be worded in any number of possible combinations.
Use the Date Filter pull-downs to tell the
search engine which date ranges to include. You can specify a 'From Date'
and/or a 'To Date'. You do not need to specify both dates - in other words, if
you just wanted articles after 1/1/94, you could change the 'From Date'
filter to January, 1994 and leave the 'To Date' set to 'No Filter'.
Use the Article Type check boxes to include or exclude
specific article types. For example, if you wanted to specifically find
an Obituary, you could 'uncheck' all of the boxes except 'Obituarys'. If
you wanted to find articles about a politician, but didn't want to see all
of the references in the Letters to the Editor, you could 'uncheck' that box.
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Viewing a Specific Day
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The Specific Day search screen allows you to find a specific day, and view
all of the articles for that day. You can also page through the
database one day at a time. To perform this type of search, just
enter a date into the space provided. Use the MM-DD-YY format, for
example: 4-15-98 or 4-15-1998.
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Printing and Saving Articles
Printing
When you print articles or screens from this system, the quality of the printed
page will improve if you have your browser set to print background colors.
To set
this option in Internet Explorer, pull down the 'View' menu, and select 'Internet Options ...'.
Then select the 'Advanced' tab, and scroll the window toward the bottom, where you
will see 'Printing'. Click the box labelled 'Print Background Colors and Images'.
To set this option with Netscape, pull down the 'File' menu, and select 'Page Setup ...'.
Then click the box labelled 'Print Backgrounds'.
Saving Articles
You can save the text from your article by pulling down the 'File' menu,
then selecting 'Save As ...'. Use the navigation dialog to choose where you
want to save the file, choose a name for the file, then click on the 'Save' button.
The file will be saved as HTML, which is the format your web browser
recognizes. To retrieve the article, you can double click the file from your file
manager or windows explorer. You can also choose 'Open' from the 'File' pull-down menu within
your browser.
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Emailing Articles
This system allows you to automatically email full text from articles to
selected email addresses. You can use this option to save text from articles, or
if you are at a location that does not have a printer, but you want to keep
a copy of the article. To email an article, click on the 'Email' button at
the upper right corner of the full text screen.
You will see a screen prompting you to enter the email address(es) to which
the article should be sent. You can also choose if the article should be sent
as straight text, or as HTML. HTML preserves the formatting, font sizes, and
general layout. Some email recipients might not be able to open HTML files, in
which case you should use the 'Text Only' option.
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Browser Compatibility
Because this site accepts credit cards, we generally require that a recent
version of a Browser be used. We recommend, and can only vouch for the performance
of Netscape 4.0 and higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher. The latest
versions of these browsers are available for free from Microsoft
and Netscape, and we recommend that
you download and use the most current version available.
Because of the secure session tracking that we use, your
browser must also enable 'Cookies' as described in the section below.
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Reporting Problems
Before contacting our support staff, please review the
Help Page for answers to the
most commonly asked questions.
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If you have had errors, billing problems, or other trouble with
this site, please
click here to visit our Trouble Report page
and report problems to Public Knowledge Systems, LLC.
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If you have a question or problem about the content of this site (articles), please
click here to email support staff at the Anchorage Daily News.
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A Word About Cookies
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Internet web pages are cached. It serves as an identifier, so that once you
log into our system, we can keep track of the fact that you are logged on.
There has recently been a lot of negative press generated
about the "invasion of privacy" that many people believe cookies represent.
Since adnsearch.com is an online commerce application, we use
cookies to keep track of your order as you shop for articles and
make purchases.
These cookies are not used in any way to collect marketing information,
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In no way do we intend to invade your privacy or collect any unsolicited
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