[Ads-l] Antedating of "Artificial Intelligence"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

A direct link to the point between Bill's steps 2 and 3:

https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive

You still have to click the "Text contents" radio button.

I've spent an extreme amount of time with this collection. Yes, it has pulps that are not SF, and yes, there are some (but relatively few) SF magazines that are not in this collection. It's also possible to build a personal collection by combining other sources.

It's not the best search interface, and the metadata is not trustworthy; thus you can't, for example, click on the "sort by" box and select "date published" and expect a useful result. There are a bunch of tricks for narrowing the results, but you really just need to play around with things to get a feel for it.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 07:55:04PM +0000, Bill Mullins wrote:
> I was asked off-list about searching just the SF pulps within the Internet Archive.  This is how I try to do it.  I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has a better way.
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> 1.  Search metadata for Astounding Science Fiction.  The results will show items from several Collections, which are listed on the left hand side of the page.
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> 2.  Click the words "The Pulp Magazine Archive" in the Collections group.  Do not click the box next to those words.
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> 3.  The results of clicking "The Pulp Magazine Archive" should show a search box at the top left of the returned items saying "Search this Collection".  Click the "Text contents" radio button, and put your search term into the box.  This will limit returns to the Pulp Collection.
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> The problem is that not all SF is in this Collection.  But once you can navigate searches within a particular collection, you can select other Collections and search them as well.  And  you may find it easier to change Collections by editing the URL rather than navigating through the IA as I have described.
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