Part of a Decision-based Learning Course for information literacy

1. INFORMATION NEEDS:
SIMILARITY

2. Similar Articles vs Searching on a Subject:
• A powerful search technique is to find
articles that are similar to articles that you
have previously found. This strategy utilizes
lists of references or other information from
an article to find other articles.
• If you haven’t yet found any articles, or if
you want to find articles that cover different
subject areas than the articles you have in
hand, you will use search techniques that
rely on words that describe the subject.

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