Why are some searches timing out or taking a long time to complete?
There are a number of factors that could affect response time: search complexity, the presence and configuration of a proxy server and/or firewall on your network, traffic shaping (port throttling) on your network, and both site and general Internet traffic. To enhance search response time (and to avoid the possibility of your university network timing out a search), we recommend that common terms (such as civil war) not be enclosed in quotes, and that wildcarding be applied to partial words of not less than five characters. Additionally, we suggest that criteria which can return very large interim results (such as Language: English and Document Type: Article) be omitted. As an aid in troubleshooting slow searches we suggest that you enable the Search Progress Window in User Options. This window provides feedback—elapsed time, number of hits, index being searched, terms rejected, etc.—during the execution of a search, and will help identify terms or strategies that might be causing pro
