WISE Search Strategies

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WISE: Keyword searching

Individual items in a library catalogue or journal database are known as records. Each record contains a number of fields, most of which can be searched.

Keyword searching is very powerful because it searches all fields simultaneously, unlike author, title or subject searches which search only in the specified field.

Use keyword searching when:

combining more than one topic or aspect of a topic
simultaneously searching all fields of a record
the exact title or author of an item is not known

Modules

Search Strategies

Learning outcomes

Analysing an assignment topic

Creating an initial search strategy

Brainstorming for keywords

Keyword searching

Keyword search tools

Boolean connector – AND

Boolean connector – OR

Boolean connector – NOT

Nesting

Truncation

Creating and using a search strategy

Using a subject link

Exercise

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