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If you used the "All Fields Including Full Text" option in the drop-down list, it is possible that your search terms appear in the full text of the document but are not mentioned in the metadata. If that is the case, your search terms will not appear in bold in the Expanded View, Full View, and FOCUS options.
The PDFs provide collation numbers that represent the total number of pages within each publication. In the case of very short publications, there is frequently no difference between the collation and the pagination, but longer publications often have multiple pagination schemes. This is especially true of publications that contain front matter, illustrations, maps, appendices, attachments, or exhibits. In order to provide the user with documents that are fully portable (i.e., able to exist on their own away from the vendor's server), it is necessary to deliver the publications as fully functional PDFs, and PDFs only allow for the total number of digital pages in any given publication.
Many of the larger publications in the Serial Set have multiple parts or span multiple Serial Set volumes. Since the House and Senate publication numbering system assigned a given publication only one number, no matter the size of the publication or how many parts or volumes it spans, many of the largest documents are extremely cumbersome to use.
House Document 1006 from the 61st Congress (Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1910) spans Serial Set volumes 5975-5978 and is composed of nearly 2,600 pages. Because of its size and variety of content (ranging from the Report of the Government Hospital for the Insane to the Report of the U.S. Geological Survey), it has been "unbundled" into 28 separate reports, each with its own bibliographic record and subject indexing.
In addition, the early State of the Union messages to Congress contained other documents, often from the Executive Branch, that were sent to Congress along with the message. This practice also created huge documents under one publication number that contained widely differing subject matter and content. These have also been "unbundled". In so doing, the relevancy and specificity of indexing for each document has been greatly increased, which gives the user more targeted and more granular search results.
Users can tell if documents have been "unbundled" if the publication number ends with a slash (/) and an additional number. The number before the slash is the "official" publication number; the number after the slash is the enclosure or part number.
First, select the largest paper size the printer can accommodate and print to fit that paper size. Then select the "Current page" radio button or specify the PDF page of the map under "Print Range". Finally, the "Fit to Printer Margins" option should be selected in the "Page Handling" drop-down box. The Preview Pane should show exactly how the page will look.
If this method does not lend the necessary resolution (given the overall size of the map), use the following method. First, zoom in to the part of the map you are interested in printing, open the Print menu and select the "Current View" radio button under "Print Range" and "Fit to Printer Margins" option in the "Page Handling" drop-down box. The Preview Pane should show your area of interest. Multiple printings using different views can then be pieced together to print a higher resolution map in multiple sheets, even with printers that have limited paper size capabilities.
If you want to print the entire map and you have access to a large format plotter printer, set the "Postscript Settings" for your printer to accommodate the particular PDF page size that contains the map. Specific instructions differ for each type of plotter printer, but generally the printer "Name" is first selected, then "Properties", and "Advanced" properties are selected in sequence. For "Paper Size", select "Postscript Custom". This brings up a menu that allows the selection of "Long Edge First" in the "Paper Feed Direction" dialog box. The Preview Pane should show exactly how the page will look.
If a blank screen is displayed after clicking a PDF link, check your version of Adobe Reader. A free reader compatible with your specific operating system is available at www.adobe.com.
You can create a unique, durable URL for each searchable PDF in the U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection. A durable URL is a direct link that takes the user to the document metadata without requiring a search. The link points to the metadata so that users can decide if they want the entire document, a subset of the document (50-page increments), or if they want to do a different search. Durable URLS can be used in bibliographies or web-bibliographies, and to send links to colleagues via email.
Only the digital collections (LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital collection and LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection) have durable URLs.
The durable URLS are based on a "base" URL and the document identification number (in this case, the Serial-Set-ID) found at the top of each bibliographic record.
The URL stem used to create durable URLs for the Serial Set is:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/getdoc?SERIAL-SET-ID=
Add the unique identifier found in the metadata for the PDF you are bookmarking after the equal sign in the URL stem. Note that there is a plus sign (+) inserted into the space between the volume number and the publication number in the Serial Set ID.
If you want to bookmark U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection record number 12735 H.doc.346, the URL would be:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/getdoc?SERIAL-SET-ID=12735+H.doc.346
If you created durable URLs prior to December 2005, they will still retrieve the records for which they were created. However, please use the new format when creating new durable URLs for your users.
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