Searches with 3 words or more

Analysis of 263 searches of 3 or more words drawn from the period 8/7/20-13/7/20 was conducted to surface combinations of intents. As with searches of less than 3 words, those originating from search engines were removed prior to analysis.

None could be considered to contain 3 distinct intents but 56 observations consisted of 2 intents. Because of the small sample size, comments below arising from this analysis quote actual numbers instead of percentages.

Concepts, subjects

• This was the most common way users searched (122 searches).

• Topic buttons on the /works homepage was the second most common way to search (55).

Concepts, subjects with other fields

• 18 of a total of 122 searches for concept/subject contained an additional search (8 time period; 5 date; 5 contributors)

Titles

• 51 searches were by title

Titles with other fields

• Only 2 of the 51 searches by title used another search term, most likely because users are confident the title is sufficient to identify a work and aren't interested in related titles.

Reference numbers

• No searches used reference numbers

Reference numbers with other fields

• No searches used reference numbers

Contributors

• This was the second most common way users searched (41 searches)

Contributors with other fields

• Only 5 searches of a total of 41 by contributor added a concept/subject

Genre

• No searches were conducted by genre

Genre with other fields

• No searches were conducted by genre