Welcome to the Project MICRO Database and Search Engine
As you might have guessed one of the benefits of Project MICRO is an extensive compilation of information about Books, Media and WWW sites. This is a valuable information resource for everyone and organizing it logically and in a easily accessible format is never trivial.
The original on-line publication of this information was manually entered and was a nightmare to keep current, having to be hand edited whenever there was an update.
We have since migrated all of the information into a Database. This is easier to maintain, and has the added benefit that it is searchable.
Every entry in the database has been classified and you can use the provided search engine to extract a WWW page of information corresponding those entries which pertain to your interests/needs.
To execute a search this you need only to go to the SEARCH ENGINE and use the form which is reproduced below to specify the information that you want.
You are able to search the database by any one of the of the following:
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For example if you are interested in all entries in the DataBase with the word Microscopy in the Title do the following:
- First select the search FIELD of Title
- Second go to the Next Line and type in Microscopy into the text box provided
- Third click on the SUBMIT button.
- The search engine is case insensitive, this means MICRO, micro and MiCrO will all produce the same result.
- The search engine finds every occurance of the phrase you enter. Thus searching the description field for the term MICRO will list all entries which contain those 5 specific characters in a continuous string. Thus you will find listed ALL records containing the words "microscope" as well as the words "microorganism" and "microbe" etc.... So don't be surprized if you get more than what you were originally looking for. By the way, the search terms are highlighted in red in the output pages so that you can see where the information you were search for was located.
- To get a listing of all the entries for a particular category, for example, a listing of all the Curriculum Guides simply use the PULL DOWN menu to select the Curriculum Guides option from the CATEGORY search parameter, then leaving all other parameter fields blank, and click on the SUBMIT button. A blank entry in a search field tells the software to search for all possible all values in this field. The result will be a listing of all the Curriculum Guides.
- There is a MAXIMUM number of entries that will be displayed on your screen for any search (50 records). If you for example try to print out the entire database by searching for everything in every field you will hit this limit. You should narrow your search criteria to a specific subset of the database. There is no limit to the number of searches you can perform, or how many times you can submit a search.
