Search tips

Here are some general search tips:

• You can search by author, title, publication year and subject ("voting", "ESC2017", for example). Entries where the description includes the keywords you entered will also be found.
• You should avoid entering the search term "Eurovision" since this is what the whole database already is about and therefore, "Eurovision" or "Eurovision Song Contest" are not used in the description or subject headings of the entries in the database.
• All search terms are automatically truncated on the left and right: Entering "politic" will find "geopolitics", "political". "sexual" will find "sexuality", "sexualities", but also "homosexuality".
• You can also search for a phrase by putting the words into double quotation marks: "cultural diplomacy" (including the quotation marks) will find results only where the word "cultural" is followed by the word "diplomacy".
• For searching about national finals or particular participations of one country in a given year, enter either the country followed immediately by the year (without space) or the year immediately followed by the two-letter country code (defined in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, is usually the same as the country's internet top-level domain). Examples: "Portugal2017" or "2017pt" will find literature on Portugal's participation in 2017 and its national final, "Netherlands1998" or "1998nl" will find results on the Dutch participation in 1998. For Czechia/The Czech Republic, "Czechia" is used regardless of the year, for "North Macedonia"/"FYROM" etc., "Macedonia" is used for all years for the sake of consistency.
• You can find literature on international finals (excluding national finals) in a given year by entering "ESC" immediately followed by the year. Example: "ESC1991" will find literature about the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 in Rome.
• You can find literature on Eurovision history by adding the search term "history" to your search: Combining "Sweden" and "history" as search terms will find year-by-year history books on the Melodifestivalen. Combining "ESC" and "history" will find general history presentations of the contest itself.
• You can find literature on LGBTQIA topics (homosexuality, all queer things) by entering the subject "LGBTQIA". This is the standard subject heading used in this database (other terms such as "gay", "queer" etc. will find considerably less results). Besides that, "gender" as a search term can lead to literature on masculinity or female representation at the contest, for example.