getting the info you need christine bronkhorst
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Getting the info you needChristine Bronkhorst
Boolean operators
Boolean cont.
• (consumer protection) AND (act OR law)
• (woman OR women OR female) AND discrimination NOT (gender)
Truncation
• Truncation allows the computer to search for multiple forms of a word
• Accepted symbol for truncation *• Type the first few letters (stem) of
the keyword • Eg : manag* (will search for
manager, managing)
Formulating a search strategy
• Keyword: identify three or four descriptive keywords
• Synonyms: Identify synonyms for these keywords e.g. women or female
• Spelling: British and American e.g. organization // organisation
• Plurals: Databases make it possible to use truncation e.g.female*
• Boolean operators: AND OR NOT
Crminal procedure act section 49
• Use of force• Reasonable force• Use of force + effecting arrest
Invloed van die wet op onderhoud van langslewende gade op boedelbeplanning
-Maintenance + surviving spouse act-Effect + estate planning-Competence + bequest
To access our databases
• http://www.nwu.ac.za/library• Search by subject• Law• (Law specific links)
When prompted for a password?
• Userid: surname
• Passw: ID no
Vs
GoogleQuantityNot organizedCommercial infoNo selection processNot permanentNot everything always for
freeNot trustworthyNo sophisticated search
strategies
LibraryQualityOrganizedCommercial and
scientificValidatedAlways available
(archive)Free (registered userd)Suitable for researchSophisticated search
strategies
Search strategy on WWW
• Upper or lower case does not matter• Automatic truncation• Quotes “ ” around “phrases”• Minus – to exclude (not-operator)• Plus + to include a word (and-
operator)• Parentheses ( ) around synonyms (or-
operator)• Use advanced features when available
Evaluation of info on WWW• Accuracy• Authority• Content &
coverage• Currency• Scientific use• Archive /
Permanency• Bibliography
• Scholar: http://scholar.google.com• Books: http://books.google.com• Institutional repository:
http://www.nwu.ac.za/opencms/export/NWU/html/library/theses_a.html
• Open Access:
Plagiarsim
• -Pass off ideas , opinions, facts you found in sources as if they were your own
• -Must credit the author• -If you use his words, indicate it by
using “quotation marks” • http://oldwww.ru.ac.za/library/infolit//own.html
Avoid plagiarism
-Don’t cut and paste information from electronic sources-Read what others have said, then formulate your own viewpoint
Try this !
• Find SA journal articles by the Author Liebenberg on Socio-economic rights
• Under the “keyword” option in your library catalogue search for civil rights
• Search for the term nasciturus fiction on LAWSA .• Find act 19 of 1998• Find international articles on Heinonline and Westlaw on
“public property”• Find the following US case: U. S. v. Feola, 420 US 671• In Google Scholar type in the search terms: “judicial
independence” grootboom.