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Keywords Flexible terminology Easier to do searches Less accurateTRANSCRIPT
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Research Steps
• Step 1—select a topic• Step 2—brainstorming for keywords• Step 3—develop a thesis statement• Step 4—develop a search strategy• Step 5—search for resources
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Library Catalog
The library catalog requires the use of specific searching techniques.
The following slides will help you with these searching techniques.
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Keywords
• Flexible terminology• Easier to do searches• Less accurate
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Keyword Phrases
• Single concept, multiple words
• Some electronic resources require keyword phrases be enclosed with punctuation– Quotation marks– Parenthesis
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Keyword Phrases
• Basic phrase• Proper names• Hyphenated words• Slogans,
advertisements• Famous quotes• Movie titles, song
titles, etc.
• (computer disk)• “Native American”• (x-ray)• “kills bugs dead”• (to be or not to be)• “Lord of the Rings”
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Subjects
• Predetermined terminology– Library of Congress
• More difficult to use in searches
• Very precise
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Keywords vs. Subjects
• Native American • Indians of North America
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Boolean Operators
• Boolean Operators connect keywords only• Must be placed between keywords• AND
– Narrows your search• OR
– Expands your search with synonymous terms• NOT
– Excludes words from your search– If used too much, it can work against you!
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Boolean Operators
• AND– queen and England– trends and teaching and “united states”
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Boolean Operators
• OR– queen or royalty– teaching or education or schooling
• AND & OR together– queen or royalty and England– trends and teaching or education or schooling
and “united states”
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Boolean Operators
• NOT– queen not hearts– school not fish
• AND, OR & NOT together– England and royalty or queen not hearts
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Truncation (Wildcards)
• Non-universal symbols used in searching
• Common symbols: * ?• Used with a root word• Used to replace a
vowel or single character
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Truncation (Wildcards)
• Root Word- looks for multiple endings of a word, in this case it takes the place of ‘OR’– jump?– jump, jumps, jumper, jumpers, jumping
– athlete and jump or jumps or jumping – athlete and jump?
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Truncation (Wildcards)
• Singular/Plural- replaces a vowel or single character in a word, in this case it takes the place of ‘OR’– wom*n– woman, women
– history and woman or women – history and wom*n