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This Help area provides general information on the Jane’s site, and assistance on how to get the most from your visit.

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Overview of www.janes.com

Jane’s online service is split into two areas – the Public Area and the Client Area. The Public Area contains content that is freely available to all visitors, whereas the Client Area is only accessible to users who are subscribed to Jane’s paid-for services.

For brief illustrations of the main areas of the site, please see the Public Area and Client Area demonstrations.

For links to all sections of www.janes.com, please visit our sitemap.

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The Public Area

For a brief illustration this part of the site, please see the Public Area demonstration.

The Public Area contains content that is freely available to all visitors, and is split into the following sections as indicated in the top navigation bar –

Public Area Home – This is the www.janes.com homepage. Here you will find a range of access routes into our wider content. It provides –

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Public Area navigation

The top navigation of Jane’s publicly available pages is structured as follows –

Client Area Home – This is the homepage for paying subscribers. It contains your account details and information on your current and lapsed subscriptions.

News – This section offers free news extracts and image galleries sourced from a wide range of Jane’s news and analysis services, presented by subject area. Subscribers may access the full version of any story by clicking on the ‘Full Article’ link provided within the extract.

Products – This online catalogue section provides details of the full range of intelligence solutions offered by Jane’s, together with pricing details and online ordering options.

Consulting – An overview of the services offered by Jane’s Strategic Advisory Services, Jane’s consulting division. This section also offers a range of white papers and articles, available to download for free.

Advertising – Details of how to advertise in Jane’s news and reference products, both in hard copy and online. This section also offers downloadable media packs.

Events – Overviews of the current and forthcoming exhibitions, conferences and awards ceremonies. This section also includes access to specific show sites dedicated to major industry events.

About Us – Corporate information about Jane’s Information Group, including its Board of Directors, areas of activity, strategy, and history.

Careers – This section is divided into three areas:

Press – The latest press releases and feature stories from Jane’s. Sign up to receive email notifications or contact our Press Centre for assistance with media enquiries.

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Registered Users

Users who have registered on www.janes.com but do not have a paid subscription have access to the following resources –

Registered users do not need to log in immediately when visiting www.janes.com. Attempting to use any of the above services will cause a sign-up or log-in message to appear, at which point you should either log in or register to gain access.

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Access to subscriber content

IP authenticated users are not required to log in to access their subscriptions. A green ‘You are Logged In’ message will appear in the top right of the screen to inform you that you have access to your subscription services.

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For clients who use a username and password to access their content, you may do so in any one of the following ways –

Each of these routes will prompt you to enter your username and password. Once you have entered your details, depending on the route you chose, you will either be returned to the page you came from, or gain access to the protected page you were seeking to access.

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The Client Area

For a brief illustration this part of the site, please see the Client Area demonstration.

The Client Area is only accessible to users with paid subscriptions to Jane’s products. In this area users have access to their account details, their subscribed content, their personalised search and alert services, research tools (search and browse) and technical assistance from Jane’s Client Services team.

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Client Area and microsite navigation

All Jane’s product microsites and Client-only Areas have a different top navigation from the Public Area pages. This provides access to frequently used public areas, as well as services and tools that are only available to paying subscribers.

The left navigation of each microsite is unique to it and reflects the content and tools accessible to subscribers of that title. Access to these links is dependent upon your subscription and log in status.

The top navigation of each microsite is structured as follows –

Public Area Home – This is the freely accessible www.janes.com homepage.

Client Area Home – This is the homepage for Jane’s clients and is only accessible to paying subscribers. It contains account details and information on current and lapsed subscriptions.

Research Tools – Also accessible from the Client Area homepage, this area is the home of the subscriber Search and Browse tools, allowing paying customers to search across all Jane’s subscription services.

Client Services – Also accessible from the Client Area homepage, this area provides subscribers with technical assistance, training and project consultancy information.

Products – This links to the Public Area online catalogue section, providing details of the full range of intelligence solutions offered by Jane’s, together with pricing details and online ordering options.

Careers – This Public Area section is divided into three areas:

Also available at the far right of the top navigation bar is a link providing quick access to the public homepages of all Jane’s product microsites.

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How to Subscribe to Jane’s Products and Services

The top navigation of Jane’s publicly available pages, as well as the Client Area, offer a number of ways of subscribing to Jane’s products and services.

Products – This online catalogue section provides details of the full range of intelligence solutions offered by Jane’s, together with pricing details and online ordering options.

Consulting – An overview of the services offered by Jane’s Strategic Advisory Services, Jane’s consulting division. This section also offers a range of white papers and articles, available to download for free.

Contact Us - The Contact Us section, accessible via the link above the top navigation, contains a complete listing of all Jane’s contact details, grouped by type of enquiry and geographic region, so you can contact one of our sales representatives directly.

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Advertising with Jane’s

Advertising – This top navigation link provides details of how to advertise in Jane’s news and reference products, both in hard copy and online. This section also offers downloadable media packs.

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Events

Events – This top navigation link provides overviews of the current and forthcoming exhibitions, conferences and awards ceremonies. This section also includes access to specific show sites dedicated to major industry events.

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Search and Browse

Quick Search and Advanced Search within the Public Area are limited to searching across Jane’s free news extracts, corporate information and online catalogue.

Search and Browse of subscription content is available only to subscribers, and may be accessed via the Research Tools link in the Client Area and the Product Microsites.

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Research Tools

For tips on searching within subscription content using Research Tools, please see below.

Quick Search

To perform a search type in one or more keywords and click on the search button for a list of relevant documents.

This will return results from all of the Jane's datasets.

For best results, it's important to choose your keywords carefully. If you're looking for information on Patriot missiles, entering the term Patriot with give you better results than entering the term missiles. If you are using more than one keyword, they should be separated by a space, or one of the operators below.

Searching is not case-sensitive, and keywords can be entered in upper, lower or mixed case.

"AND" Searches
Use the AND operator to retrieve results that contain all of your Kewords. For example, if you want to see documents that contain all the keywords frigate, submarine and torpedo, enter the search string = frigate <AND> submarine <AND> torpedo

"OR" Searches

To match any one or more of the search terms, use the <OR> operator in-between your keywords, for example:

Rocket <OR> Missile

Phrase Searching
Phrase searching is achieved by entering two or more keywords surrounded by double-quotes. Only exact matches where the keywords appear adjacent in a document will be returned, for example:

"mortar bomb"

See 'Advanced Search Help' section for more information on all operators.

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Quick Search Results

Search Within Results Link
This loads the ‘Search Within Results' page, and allows you to search across just the results from your original query.

Advanced Search Link
Clicking this link will load the Advanced Search Screen. See 'Advanced Search Help'

New Search Button
Entering a new keyword into the field, and clicking the 'New Search' button will perform a new search across the Jane's data.

Sort Score Link
Clicking this link will re-sort your results by score, in ascending or descending order.

Sort Product Link
Clicking this link will re-sort your results alphabetically by publication, in ascending or descending order.

Sort Date Link
Clicking this link will re-sort your results by date, in ascending or descending order.

Product Acronym
Clicking on this link will load a pop-up window, with a brief description of that Jane's product.

Paging - Result Page (numbered list)
This allows you to navigate to any page within your results, or simply advance one page at a time. The ‘Prev’ and ‘Next’ buttons allow you to navigate back and forth through your results.

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Search within Results

This allows you to search through the results of your original query, just type in one or more words and click the ‘Search within Results’ button for a list of relevant documents containing both your original query, and your new keyword(s).

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See also ‘Quick Search Help’

Advanced Search Link

Clicking this link will load the Advanced Search page. See ‘Advanced Search Help’

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Advanced Search

Stemming
The stemming functionality returns documents containing terms that match the root of your term, and stemmed variations. For example:

Destroy> Destroyed, Destroying, Destroys

It's important to note that not all stemmed variations are matched. From the example above, the term Destroyer is not matched.

To return results with no stemming, surround your term(s) with double-quotes.

Wildcards
The Wildcard characters are the question mark (to replace a single character) and the asterisk (to replace any number of characters), and can be used at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Their purpose is to allow you to search for all possible variations of a keyword. For example –

Ma?ia > Mafia, Maria

hydro* > Hydromechanical, Hydrophones, Hydrographic

*jet > Learjet, Alpha Jet, Water-Jet, Altajet

defen*e > Defensive, Defensible

Boolean Operators
The Boolean <AND>, <OR>, and <NOT> operators are available for use, and are more powerful than using keywords alone.

The <AND> operator is used to return documents that contain all of your keywords. An example of use is as follows:

destroyer <AND> frigate <AND> phalanx

The <OR> operator is used to return documents that contain any of your keywords. An example of use is as follows:

destroyer <OR> frigate

The <NOT> operator is used to return documents that do not include a keyword. An example of use is as follows:

submarine <NOT> nuclear

In addition, the Jane’s search functionality supports use of the plus and minus characters as alternatives to the <AND> and <NOT> operators, respectively.

An example of their use is as follows:

destroyer +frigate

submarine -nuclear

Note that a space is required between the operator and the preceeding term.

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Proximity Operators
The <NEAR> operator is used to return documents where the keywords are in close proximity to one another. It is more likely that a document will be of greater value to you when your keywords appear close together in a document.

The <NEAR> operator will match documents where your keywords appear within 1024 words of each other. An example of use is as follows:

typhoon <NEAR> RAF

It is good practice to surround all operators with angle brackets as shown, as only the AND, OR and NOT operators can be used without angle brackets.

The <NEAR> operator can be configured to operate with a user-defined range as follows:

<NEAR/N>

This selects documents containing two or more words within N number of words of each other, where N is an integer.

Document scores are calculated based on the relative distance of the specified words when they are separated by N words or less.

For example, if the search expression <NEAR/5> is used to find two words within five words of each other, a document that has the specified words within three words of each other is scored higher than a document that has the specified words within five words of each other.

The N variable can be an integer between 1 and 1,024, where <NEAR/1> searches for two words that are next to each other.

If N is 1,000 or above, you must specify its value without commas, as in <NEAR/1000>.

You can specify multiple search terms using multiple instances of <NEAR/N>, as long as the value of N is the same.

For example, to retrieve relevance-ranked documents that contain stemmed variations of the words lightweight, fighter, prototype, and programme within 10 words of each other, enter the following:

lightweight<NEAR/10> fighter <NEAR/10> prototype <NEAR/10> programme

Phrase Searching
Phrase searching is achieved by entering two or more keywords surrounded by double-quotes. Only exact matches where the keywords appear adjacent in a document will be returned. For example:

"mortar bomb"

Search Precedence
Your search queries will be read from left to right, but certain operators take precedence over others.

For example, the query below is interpreted to mean: Look for documents that contain Hornet, or look for documents that contain Prowler and Nimitz.

Hornet <OR> Prowler <AND> Nimitz

To change the operator precedence, use parentheses as shown below.

(Hornet <OR> Prowler) <AND> Nimitz

This expression will now look for documents that contain either Hornet and Nimitz, or Prowler and Nimitz

Results
Allows you to return 10, 20 or 50 results per page.

Date Range
The date range search field allows you to search for documents with a post date between your chosen start and end dates. It’s important to note that this is the date the document was made available for release to our electronic services, and is not the hard copy publication date.

The format for entering dates is DD-MMM-YYYY - (29-AUG-1976), or you can use the calendar buttons to select your dates.

Document Title
This field allows you to search across only document titles. If a search term is present in a document title, that document is more likely to be relevant to your needs. If you know it, you can also search using a full or part document title, to quickly return just the document you want to view.

Country
Use the country field, to only return documents related to a specific country. Magazine titles do not support the country field, as the magazine content is often not country specific.

Company
The company field allows you to narrow your search, by only returning documents that refer to that specific company. Not all titles make use of the company field.

Section
The section field also allows you to narrow your search, by only returning documents from your choice of section. This field is more effective when you are aware of the sections that make up the publication.

Score
The default selection, returns documents ranked according to the search term accuracy within the document. The higher the score, the more relevant the document.

Date (descending)
Returns documents sorted in descending date order, listing the most recent documents first.

Date (ascending)
Returns documents sorted in ascending date order, listing the oldest documents first.

Publication (descending)
Returns documents sorted alphabetically in descending publication order, Z-A.

Publication (ascending)
Returns documents sorted alphabetically in ascending publication order A-Z.

Dataset Selection
You are given several options for selecting which Jane's titles you would like to search (e.g. Fighting Ships, Defence Weekly). By default, Janes.com will search all of the available titles (datasets).

The following options allow you to alter the selection of titles to search:

 Select the specific datasets that you want to search from either of the list boxes below.

a space is required between the operator and the preceeding term

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 Datasets you have subscribed to: ( Control + Click to select or de-select multiple datasets)

 Datasets you have not subscribed to: ( Control + Click to select or de-select multiple datasets)

Windows users may select or de-select from either box in any combination by using the Control (CTRL) key and c licking your mouse.

Apple Mac users can select or de-select from either box in any combination by holding down the Command (Apple) key and clicking your mouse.

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Advanced Search Results

Refine Search Button
Clicking this button will take you to the Advanced Search page, with the relevant fields now populated by your original query. From here you can adjust any parameter to refine your original search. See also ‘Advanced Search Help’

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New Search Button
This will load a fresh Advanced Search page, for you to perform a different search.

Resort by Score arrow
Clicking this link will re-sort your results by score, in ascending or descending order.

Resort by Product arrow
Clicking this link will re-sort your results alphabetically by publication, in ascending or descending order.

Resort by Date arrow
Clicking this link will re-sort your results by date, in ascending or descending order.

Product Acronym
Clicking on this link will load a pop-up window, with a brief description of that Jane’s product.

Paging - Result Page (numbered list)
This allows you to navigate to any page within your results, or simply advance one page at a time. The ‘Prev’ and ‘Next’ buttons allow you to navigate back and forth through your results.

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Refine Search Page

This is the Advanced Search page, with the relevant fields now populated by your original query. From here you can adjust any parameter to refine your original search. See also ‘Advanced Search Help’.

Refine search button

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Image Search

The Image Search feature allows you to perform a keyword search across the captions that accompany all images on Janes.com. Search results are returned in the form of image thumbnails, and their captions. Subscribers can then click on a link to see the full image, and the associated publication entry.

You can sort the search results by score or date, and choose to display 10, 20, or 50 results.

Keyword(s):

Sorting Options:

By Date, Descending

By Date, Ascending

By Score

Hits to Display:

10

20

50

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Data Browse

Navigation
The complete Jane’s content is organized into various groups of related material. Browse uses what is known as category drill-down to allow you to intuitively navigate through your chosen publications.

When you have drilled down to the final category, only documents are displayed.

As you drill down you will notice that what is known as the ‘crumb trail’, will update at the top of the page to reflect the publication and level that you have reached.

For example, if you choose to drill down within the ‘Systems and Equipment’ category, and then the ‘Section’ category within Fighting Ships, the crumb trail will display as shown below.

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Should you then wish to drill down into a different title within the ‘Systems and Equipment’ category for example, without clicking on the ‘Back’ button on your browser, you can simply click on the link to "Systems and Equipment" within the crumb trail.

 

Search within Browse
In addition to drilling all the way down to a document, it’s also possible to perform keyword searching at each category level.

There are 5 levels in the browse structure.

It is possible to perform keyword searching using the search functionality, across:

Being able to drill down into a publication, and then perform keyword searches at that level, gives you more control over what you are searching when compared with keyword searching using the main search page.

For example using the main search page to search across a specific publication section would require you to know the name of that section. Using the browse functionality you can visually select your chosen category, and search across it.

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How to contact Jane’s

Each section within the Public Area contains contact information specific to the subject area covered in that section.

Visitors – If you cannot find the information you require on this page and have a general comment or query, please contact us via our Feedback Form.

Subscribers – If you require technical support, please contact –

North and South America
 e-mail: client.services@janes.com
Tel: +1 (703) 683 3700
+1 (800)243 3852
Fax: +1 (703) 836 5328

Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Middle East
 e-mail: client.services@janes.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 8700 3753
Fax: +44 (0)20 8700 3771

All users – The Contact Us section, accessible via the link above the top navigation, contains a complete listing of all Jane’s contact details, grouped by type of enquiry and geographic region.

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Getting listed in Jane’s titles

Companies and organisations wishing to have their products and services listed in Jane’s titles can contact us by completing the Free Listing questionnaire. You will then be contacted by our editorial team to confirm your details and check your eligibility for inclusion.