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Beth Transue, Librarian
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Searching
Define Concepts
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Use Searching Skills
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Select Database
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Concepts
Determine keywords and subject terms
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What is the difference between keyword and
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subject?
Topic
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Database bibliographic record
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Subject thesaurus in database
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Boolean: AND
AND
Record must contain BOTH words
Use for searching for different concepts

Boolean: OR
OR
Record can contain EITHER word
Use when searching for similar concepts

PubMed
Database of articles
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related to the medical
field
 Coordinated by National
Library of Medicine
 FREE, even when not at
Messiah!
http://www.pubmed.gov

Evaluating Resources
ESPECIALLY for Alternative Medicine
Consider:
Publisher/Author
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Affiliation
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Purpose
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Date
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Personal knowledge
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If Time….
Determine topic, keywords
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Select website or database
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Search with keywords
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Find subjects
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Refine search with keywords, subject, Boolean
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Find relevant articles, books, webpages
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Report back to group (searching strategy,
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satisfaction with results?)