Results
This page covers the following topics:
- Results list
- Narrowing your choices
- Searching within results
- Removing search terms
- Outputting results
Results list
The results of a search are displayed in the Results list.
Each result is an entry or an Overview page. Switch to book view to see the results of your search as books. The matching results are listed on one or more page(s).
If your term could refer to more than one topic, these are listed under Did you mean: Choose any of the options to search on that topic.
The number of results (and your search criteria) appears at the top of the list.
The Overview
The first result in the list is the Overview for the topic most closely related to your search term. (There is an Overview page for every unique entry in OR, which consists of some defining text from an OR entry with links to related content in OR.)
Other results
Each of the other results consists of the name of the entry and details of the book in which it appears, as well as other information about its subject, online publication date, etc.).
To open any of the entries listed, click on the entry title.
To open any of the books listed, click on the book’s title.
Padlocked books or entries 
are unavailable under your subscription.
Moving between results pages
The number of pages of results are shown at the top and bottom of the list on the right. To move to any of the numbered pages, click on it.
Items per page
The standard number of results is 10 per page, but you can alter this up to a maximum of 100.
Sorting results
Results are listed by relevance.
You can also choose to order them by:
- Title - A to Z
- Title - Z to A
- Author - A to Z
- Author - Z to A
- Current Online Version - Newest to Oldest
- Current Online Version - Oldest to Newest
- Length - Shortest to Longest
- Length - Longest to Shortest
Changing how much information is displayed
There are three options for viewing results. To select one, click on it.
Minimal detail: entry title, book title, contextual text snippet, and content set.
Medium detail: all minimum detail plus book cover, subject, reference type, current version, length, and illustration(s).
Maximum detail: all medium details plus ISBN, eISBN, author, and publisher.
Narrowing your choices
You can narrow down your results using the options to the left of the Results list. To toggle between displaying and hiding these options, click the appropriate 
or 
.
By reference type
To confine your results to a particular reference type, choose one of the types listed by clicking on it.
When you do this, the type you have chosen is added to the search terms at the top of the results list:
To revert back to the previous Results list, click the 
.
To clear all your search terms, click 
.
By subject
To confine your results to a particular subject area, choose one of the subjects listed by clicking on it. You can choose a main subject category, or one of its subcategories. (To switch between viewing and hiding a subject's subcategories, click on the [+]/[-] button.)
The subject you have chosen is added to the search terms at the top of the results list:
To revert back to the previous Results list, click the .
By content set
To confine your results to entries from books in Oxford Quick Reference or the Oxford Reference Library, click the appropriate checkbox, then 
to update the Results list.
The content set you have chosen is added to the search terms at the top of the results list:
To revert back to the previous Results list, click the .
Note: The contents of OR available to you depend on your subscription. Use the following filter (situated to the left of the ‘You are looking at…’ box ) to show only the results from content which your subscription gives you full access to:
By illustrations
To confine your results to entries with images click on Results with images only.
The option is added to the search terms at the top of the results list:
To revert back to the previous Results list, click the .
Searching within results
You can further refine any search by searching for a term within the entries in the Results list:
1. Type the term you want to find into the Search within results box.
2. Click 
.
Your search term is added to the search terms at the top of the Results list. To revert back to the original Results list, click the next to the new term.
Removing a search term
If you have run an Advanced search on more than one term, searched within results, or added a filter to your Results list, you may have more than one search term listed at the top of the Results list.
Any of these search terms may be removed by clicking the next to it.
The Results list is automatically updated to reflect your edited search.
To clear all your search terms, click .
Outputting results
Printing results
To print the current Results list, click 
. A printable version is displayed in your browser.
Saving results
To save the current Results list to a file, click 
, and follow the instructions given.
Sending an email link
To send an email link to the current Results list (regardless of whether the recipient has a subscription), click 
. Fill in the details as appropriate. The email will contain a link to the current list only, which will be valid for the next two weeks.
Social bookmarking
To share a link to the current Results list on any of over 300 sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Googlemail, etc.), click 
and choose one of the options.
Changing text size
To toggle between standard and large text display, use 
.
