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• July 1976-present.

• The Government Printing Office (GPO) record database is the most comprehensive catalog of U.S. federal government publications available. MarciveWeb DOCS is the World Wide Web version of MARCIVE’s GPO database. An exciting feature is the ability to link to documents available on the Internet by clicking on the highlighted Internet address. The MarchiveWeb DOCS record also shows which libraries own each title. The Thomas Cooper Library’s Documents and Microforms Department is a U.S. federal regional depository library and has many of the items listed in MarciveWeb DOCS.

Getting Started

MarciveWeb DOCS is accessed from the drop-down menu on the Electronic Resources page. USC students, faculty and staff can also access it from off campus. See the Electronic Resources page for instructions.

Express Search

• Basic, default search option.

• Browse Searching: Useful when you know the EXACT title, author, agency or subject of a specific item. Enter the title, author or agency name, or subject heading in the text box. Select the button for the particular index and "Browse". Click "Search" to execute the search.
  For titles, omit "an", "the", etc. The format for personal authors is last name, first name.

• Keyword Searching: Useful when you do not know the exact title, author or subject of a specific item. To search keywords in the index lists of titles, authors and agencies, or subjects enter the words you are trying to find in the text box. Make sure the buttons for the particular index and "Keyword" are selected. Click "Search".

• Numeric Searching: Numeric searches are available for SuDoc number, technical report number and other numbers. To search a number index, select the appropriate radio button, enter your search term in the text box and click "Search". Many scientific technical reports are not indexed in Marcive.

Combined Search

• More advanced search options across multiple fields.

• Click "Combined Search" button at the top of the screen to use this search option.

• “Anyword” searches your terms across all text indexes listed above it.

• Enter keywords in the text box(es). Click "Search". Boolean searching can be used. (See below for details.)

Search Syntax

Boolean Searching: Search terms should be enclosed between parentheses with the Boolean perators AND, OR, or NOT before and/or between the search terms.
EXAMPLES: (health) OR (physical)
((health) NOT (physical)) AND (education)
Boolean expressions can be used across fields from the Combined Search screen.
EXAMPLES: Author: (court OR justice) subject: AND (microsoft)

Truncation: In keyword searches words are truncated with *. The minimum word length for truncated terms is three characters.
EXAMPLES: comput* will locate computers and computing

To search specifically for Internet documents, enter the word "internet" in the "Anyword" search box in the Combined Search screen.
Wildcards, backward truncation, phrase searching or proximity limiters are not available.

Search Results

Results List

• Browse Search results will be the entire list of items, positioned at the item you searched with the number of items for each entry next to the list. If there is no exact match, the first item immediately following your search term is shown.

• Keyword and Combined Search results will be the items matching your search only.

• If no results match your search, the message "No records selected" is displayed.

• Jump from one part of a results list to another by entering the term you wish to jump to in the box next to the "Jump To:" button. Click "Jump To:". The buttons at the top and bottom of the results screen will navigate through results lists.

• Click on the title of an item to see more details. The default display format is the “Full” display, with word labels describing parts of the record being displayed.

Individual Item Records

• More options will be presented when an individual item record is displayed.

• The "Holdings" button will display the libraries with the item.

• The "SUDOCS #" is the call number needed to locate the item in the Documents/Microforms department.

• Documents available on the Internet will display a link. Click this to go directly to the document.

Printing and Downloading

• To export or print records from your results, click on the “Save Record” button on the record display screen. On returning to the record list, the entry you saved will now have a character to the left of it.

• Once records have been saved, a button labeled "Saved Records" will be displayed at the top and bottom of every screen.

• To deselect a saved record, click on the record’s title in the record list to access the individual item record and then select "Unsave Record".

• When you have saved all of the records you are interested in, click on "Saved Records". A list of the titles you selected and options to view them will appear. You will be presented with the number of titles you have selected and options to view them.

• To display your list before exporting or printing, click on "Browse list of all saved titles."

• You may "unsave" any you no longer want. To remove all of the saved titles from the list go back to the saved record menu and click on "Clear all saved records."

• To print or download your saved records as text, choose one of the display options listed on the screen. Click on the browser's "Print" button to print.

• To save records to a file, click on your browser’s “File” menu option, then choose "Save as file." You will be prompted for a file name and your browser will save the file to the specified location. Files will be saved in plain text format and can be opened with Notepad, Wordpad or a word processing program.