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Search Functionality
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General Site Navigation
1. Top Navigation Bar
Tabs to main publication types
Links in the orange navigation bar for:
News
Librarians
Users Guide
Price List
Email alerts
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General Site Navigation
2. Go To and Quick Search Functions
Go To: drop-down list of titles.
Quick Search: search the titles and abstracts
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General Site Navigation
3. Advanced Search Functions in six steps
1. Phrases, exact
or truncated
2. Search specified
fields or all,
including full text.
3. Boolean
operators
4. Search within
publication types
5. Specify year of
publication
6. Sort results
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General Site Navigation
Modify and search further.
Number of results found.
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Learn of future
titles with the
Save Search
Email Alert
service.
Marked list to e-mail
or download results.
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General Site Navigation
5. Keeping track of your Searches
Search History maintained
throughout session
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General Site Navigation
6. Using the Left-hand menus
Left-hand menus on provide support information and links.
Homepage
Books
Periodicals
Statistics
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Periodicals
Click on Periodicals tab
to go to Periodicals
homepage.
Periodicals Home Page
Use the Left Hand Menu
to browse through our
various periodicals by
title.
Or find articles via the
search screen.
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Periodicals
Working with Periodicals - EasyLinks
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Every periodical
has an EasyLink –
short-cuts to
regularly used
titles.
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Periodicals
Periodical Home Page – Finding your way
The Latest Issue’s Table
of Contents is listed on the
periodical’s home page.
Use left-hand menu to access
previous issues (Year), support
services and information.
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Periodicals
OECD Economic Surveys
Latest Issues listed at
top of page.
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Don’t miss
new Surveys.
Register for
the alerting
service.
All editions published since
1998 listed by Country.
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Books
Books Home Page
Use Left Hand Menu to
browse through
categories by title.
Or use the search
screen.
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Books
Find a Book – use its ISBN!
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Type a book’s ISBN
after the
SourceOECD URL
to go to its table of
contents!
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Books
Book Theme Home Page
Latest Titles listed at top
of the page.
Or browse through All
Titles
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Sign up for
new title
Email Alerts.
Annuals, Outlooks and
other key titles are listed
here.
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Books
Books – Using EasyLinks
Each Book Theme has a specific EasyLink to link to the theme home page.
Each Book Title has a specific EasyLink using its ISBN linking to the book’s
table of contents.
Complete list of EasyLinks available in the
Librarians’ and Users’ areas.
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Statistics
Statistics Home Page
Left Hand Menu to
browse through list of
statistical databases and
e-books.
Or use search screen.
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Statistics
Database Product: Home Page Step 1 – choose database
Each database
homepage lists the
available databases.
Click on Tables to
proceed.
Use Left Hand Menu to
access support information.
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Statistics
Database Product: Step 2 – choose table
Each database
comprises one or more
tables. From list of
tables, click on title to
proceed.
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Statistics
Database Product: Step 3 – abstract & deliver data
Each table has a
descriptive abstract (used
by the search engine).
Click Deliver Data to
access the data in
Beyond 20/20.
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Statistics
Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – step 1
Under Selection start to
build your data query
parameter-by-parameter.
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If there are
folders, open
them for more
detailed data.
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Statistics
Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – step 2
When selection complete,
choose your report under
Options. View Report
will build a table, View
Chart will build a chart.
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Statistics
Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – step 3
While in “View Report &
Advanced mode”, you
can export data in
ExcelTM, .csv or
Beyond20/20 formats.
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Statistics
Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – Notes Icon
Look out for Notes Icons.
These explain sources,
methodology and units
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Statistics
Database Product: My Reports - Saving Selections
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Save your
extractions for
future sessions – it
will save time when
new data becomes
available..
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Statistics
Database Product: Sources and Methods/Glossary
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Extensive Sources and
Methods documentation,
freely available from every
database homepage..
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The OECD’s Glossary of
Statistical Terms - important
in helping to understand our
data..
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Factbook
Annual indicators for OECD and some non-members
List of different
indicators corresponds
to chapters in print
version.
Select an indicator,
shows contents.
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Factbook
Contents for each indicator and link to underlying data using StatLink
Definition, analysis,
trends, with links to
sources and further
reading.
Alternatively, using
StatLink, open XLS
spreadsheet.
View graph or table.
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StatLink
StatLink – link to data from tables and graphs in electronic or print formats
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Working Papers
OECD Working Papers – nearly 1000 papers
11 different Working
Paper series, full-text
searchable, from 1983
onwards.
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Reference
Loose-leaf and reference publications
Expanding collection of
specialised guidelines
and conventions.
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