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The "Directory" link on the navbar leads to the ISFDB Author Directory which is a table showing the first and last author for each letter in the alphabet. Clicking on any author leads to a page showing all authors for the given letter. | The "Directory" link on the navbar leads to the ISFDB Author Directory which is a table showing the first and last author for each letter in the alphabet. Clicking on any author leads to a page showing all authors for the given letter. | ||
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You can also do partial name searches, for example if you are unsure if it's Ursula K. Le Guin or Ursula K. LeGuin you can search for either "Ursula" or "guin" and the list will be short enough that you can locate the author record. | You can also do partial name searches, for example if you are unsure if it's Ursula K. Le Guin or Ursula K. LeGuin you can search for either "Ursula" or "guin" and the list will be short enough that you can locate the author record. | ||
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| This page is a help or manual page for the ISFDB database. It describes standards or methods for entering or maintaining data in the ISFDB database, or otherwise working with the database. Other help pages may be found via the category below. To discuss what should go on this page, use the talk page.
If, after exploring the Help system, you still have a question, please visit the Help desk and let us know. We probably know the answer, but we need your help to know what we left out of the help pages. If you are new to editing the ISFDB, please see Help:Getting Started. For more on this and other header templates, see Header templates. |
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The "Directory" link on the navbar leads to the ISFDB Author Directory which is a table showing the first and last author for each letter in the alphabet. Clicking on any author leads to a page showing all authors for the given letter.
Note that the author directory is from ISFDB version 1 and has not been updated since early 2005. There is a project in the works to upgrades these pages to reflect the current ISFDB author list but in the mean time you may be better off using ISFDB's Advanced Search or standard search (at the top of the left navbar) features to look up authors. You can simulate the directory in the standard search by entering space followed by the first letter(s) of the last name. For example, " as" (space-a-s) shows a list of 97 authors whose last name starts with "As." Note that this method does not work in Advanced Search as it strips leading/trailing spaces.
You can also do partial name searches, for example if you are unsure if it's Ursula K. Le Guin or Ursula K. LeGuin you can search for either "Ursula" or "guin" and the list will be short enough that you can locate the author record.