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Bibliographic Database Applications Standard Icon Set.

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Category : Actions

Icon	Meaning
	Home Return directly to the Welcome page / screen
	Menu Display the Main Menu.
	Change Language Toggle between the native language of the site (represented by whatever is their flag), and English
	Information Display Information about this facility (eg database, search system).
	Help Display help on the current task.
	Find Look or search for a particular set of documents
	Browse Display an Index of access points (e.g. Authors ).
	Thesaurus Browse the thesaurus for search terms which match the given search string.
	Limit Reduce number of returned results by applying additional search criteria. ( e.g. Date of publication)
	Location Display information about the selected object's location (e.g. a URL for a web page, or a shelf number for a library book )
	Move to first record Move to the first record in the current set of records
	Move to last record Move to the last record in the current set of records
	Forward Move to the next record in the current set of records
	Back Move to the previous record in the current set of records
	Fast Forward Move forward a given number of records within the search set, or to the beginning of the next subset within the search set (the next 'page').
	Fast Reverse Move backward a given number of records within the search set, or to the beginning of the previous subset within the search set (the previous 'page').
	Clear Clear the current information. (e.g. eg a set of search results, or the current contents of a form)
	Expand Display Enlarge current display (eg to occupy the entire screen, in a windows application)
	Contract Display Reduce view of current information to fit in a window. ( Opposite of Expand display ).
	Brief List Display a brief list of current search results. ( e.g. results of the search in a concise format ).
	Full record Show all fields associated with a given document. (this can be thought of as the opposite of Brief List ).
	Show / View / Display Show the results of the current search. (Some systems will not automatically show results of a search but merely tell you the number of matched results ).
	Print Print the current item (eg screen, document or search set)
	Save Save or download search results to a file.

Category : Fields

Icon	Meaning
	Author
	Bibliographic Database
	Citation / Journal Reference
	ISBN International Standard Book Number
	ISSN International Standard Serial Number
	Keyword Keyword or words with which to search.
	Subject
	Title
	Year The year a document was published.

Category : Operators

Icon	Meaning
	Greater than Retrieve items where search key is greater than a user assigned value.
	Less than Retrieve items where search key is less than a user assigned value.
	Less than or Equal to Retrieve items where search key is less than or equal to a user assigned value.
	Greater than or Equal to Retrieve items where search key is greater than or equal to a user assigned value.
	Equal to Retrieve items where search key is equal to a user assigned value.
	NOT equal to Retrieve items where search key is not equal to a user assigned value.
	AND Retrieve items in search for which both boolean expressions seperated by AND are true. All search keys separated by AND must be present.
	OR Retrieve items in search for which any of the boolean expressions seperated by OR are true. Only one of the search keys separated by OR need be present.
	NOT Retrieve items in search for which the negation of this boolean expression is true.
	NEAR Retrieve items in search where a keyword is within a specified number of words of another keyword.

Notes: The icons for ISBN and ISSN clash with the 'No language characters' rule. These icons were chosen as they convey their meaning clearer than a non character based icon and their meaning is pretty much internationally recognised. This same scheme of thought was applied to AND, OR, NOT and NEAR as most people are not aware of the mathematical symbols which represent them.
No copyright law restricts the use of these icons, so they may be used in any way by anyone.