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Q: When I enter the archives I’m on the Home screen. What can I do from here? A: The Home screen allows you to select any newspaper issue for browsing. You may select a Year and a Month from the drop-down lists. Then click on a date on the corresponding calendar. The issue for that day will open, beginning with Page 1. You may browse through the issue by clicking on the arrow next to the numbers in the page selection box at the top center, or click the red arrow on the right in the middle of the screen outside the full-page display to go to the next page. This is useful if you want to review a historic event or to see what was happening on a particular date, like your birthday. Remember The Oklahoman is a morning newspaper. That means coverage of events most often will be in the newspaper the morning after the event occurred. For instance, if you want to browse the newspaper for first-day coverage of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963, you would go to the November 23, 1963, issue. Q: How do I search for a person by name? A: Select the Search tab if you are not already on the Search screen. Put quotation marks around words that you want to search next to each other like a name or phrase. Otherwise, the search will look for the appearance of these words anywhere in an article. For example: “Brad Henry” searches for the words Brad and Henry next to each other. Be sure to select the Archive Period or Date Range and to Sort the results. Sorting by Score returns documents beginning with those that have the most frequent occurrences of the search. Please consult the Help file for additional Search Tips. Q: What do the tabs Home, Search, Issue, Last Search Results mean at the top of the archives screen? A: Home: This is the starting page for The Oklahoman Archives. From this page, you can select an issue to read or browse. Once you have clicked an appropriate date in the calendar on the Home screen, the Issue page opens with the selected issue, starting with page 1. Search: From this page, you can search for articles by entering search terms and archive periods or date ranges. Issue: By selecting the Issue tab, you may return to the last issue opened for reading or browsing. Last Search Results: Select this tab to return to the results - headline list - of the last search you did. Q: On the Search screen, when I select the Date Range option, how do I change the year? A: When you do a Date Range search, you must first type in the year. So, where it says 2005, just delete and type in the year you want. Then select the Month from the list and click the date on the calendar. Repeat this in the From: and To: Also, if you want to change date ranges after they’ve been selected, just click on the date you want to change and repeat the steps. Q: On the Search screen, in the Archive Period list, what does Default mean? A: The default date range is Jan. 1, 2003 to the current issue (yesterday’s paper). Q: On the Search screen, how do I select more than one Archive Period to search? A. Use the Ctrl (control) key to select more than one range of dates. Q: When I’m reading an article that continues from Page 1, how do I get to the continuation? A: Sometimes there will be a Continue button on the article-viewing window. If so, click it and it will take you to the rest of the article. If not, note the page number to which the article continues, cursor over the Article option at the top left of the viewing window, cursor down and select Show Full Page. From the full-page view, go to the top center of the page to the page selection box, enter the page number of the continuation, and hit return (enter). This will take you to the page on which the article continues. You can click on the continued article to read it in the article-viewing window. Q: I can't print the whole article. It covered five columns, and I couldn't print the last column. Is there a way to do this? A: When you select print from the Article option, it first takes you to a printer info box that lets you change options on your printer. You can change from portrait (vertical page) to landscape (horizontal) and reduce, or scale, the image before it prints. If your printer accommodates legal-size or longer paper, use it. To get wide articles to fit onto standard paper, you will need to select the scaling option to reduce it to something less than 100 percent. This is found on most laser printers under graphic options. A 65 percent scaling will fit the widest multi-column articles onto standard letter-sized paper. Q: What does "Add to My Collection" mean? A: Add to My Collection is a way to store headlines of articles that you may want to read later. From the headline list, or when reading an article, you can select the little folder icon to add to your collection. This way, if you do several searches, you can have all the pertinent results in a quick-reference area. The collection feature is stored on the personal computer. So, if you search on more than one computer, the My Collection list from one will not show up on the other. Q: How do I return to the My Collection list to read articles I have marked? A: Select the My Collection option from the Archives navigation area at the far left of the screen. You can delete items from the list when you no longer need them. Q: When I want to try another search, I click the back arrow - and that puts me back at the beginning of NewsOK. Why does this happen? A: Once you are in the archives, you should navigate with the tabs at the top of the interface: Home, Search, Issue, Last Search Results. So, to start a new search, click the Search tab. To browse a specific date, click Home and select a year and date. Hitting Back on your browser will take you out of the archives application and back to NewsOK.com, or the web page from which you entered the archives. Q: Why is the same story repeated in a single issue with different page numbers? A: The “repeated” stories are different versions of the same story published in different editions or in multiple neighborhood news sections, called Community or Metro. The Oklahoman publishes three editions with news focused to state, suburban and city readers. In the microfilmed issues, all three editions were preserved. If the content of a page changed on any of these editions, each edition’s version of that page was saved. Most often, Page 1 and Sports pages change from edition to edition. That means there may be 3 versions of Page 1 for any given date. In the case of neighborhood news, the story may appear as many as six times – North, South, East, West, Edmond and Norman. It may have the same headline or a different one, depending on how it was displayed in each section. Q: Why is a Page 1 article I found listed as Page 89 in the archives? A: The preceding question/answer relates. The city edition was microfilmed as the paper of record, and then each page that had changed from the state and suburban editions was added to the end of that day’s microfilm. Since the archival system does not have a way to list pages by edition or section – A section, B section, etc., or First, Sub, City editions – when the microfilm was digitized, the pages were numbered sequentially. So Page 1 of the state edition might be Page 89 (89/110) in the archives. After Sept 2001, when the archiving software was installed, the database is created from daily production, and only the City edition is saved. So you don’t have early edition pages. However, as indicated in the preceding Q/A, you will have multiple versions of Metro section stories, and the archives page number will be sequential as they were stored, not reflecting the actual page number in the newspaper. Q: When I am browsing an issue, can I move to a specific page number without advancing a page at a time? A: Yes. If you know the page number, you can simply type it into the Page Selection box and hit Enter. Example: If you are on Page 1 and want to go to Page 10 in a 36-page paper, replace the 1/36 in the box in the menu at the top of the viewer with a 10 and hit Enter. If you are looking for a page that has a section labels, like 10-B, please see the preceding Q/A about page numbering. If you want to just browse the issue a page at a time, click on the arrow next to the numbers in the page selection box at the top center, or click the red arrow in the middle of the screen outside the full-page display. Q: There used to be an afternoon edition of the newspaper called the Oklahoma City Times. Can I search articles from the Times in the archives? A: No. While, the same company published The Oklahoman and the Oklahoma City Times, the Times operated as a separate newspaper, and the microfilm collection also was separate. The digitized issues used for this online resource are from The Oklahoman only. However, some Times columns and features have appeared in The Oklahoman over the years. Beginning on Nov. 1, 1975, the Times combined its Saturday edition with The Oklahoman. The Saturday edition of The Oklahoman was called the Saturday Oklahoman & Times from then until Sept. 28, 1996. The final Oklahoma City Times edition was published on Feb. 29, 1984. From March 1, 1984, to June 14, 1985, the newspaper used a combined name – The Daily Oklahoman / Oklahoma City Times – and published some Times features as well. |
