Boolean operators like AND, OR, and NOT allow users to precisely control search results. Enclosing phrases in quotation marks returns documents containing the exact phrase. Truncating words with an asterisk (*) broadens results to related terms. Combining these techniques with parentheses provides powerful search capabilities.
Basic Boolean Searching for High School ResearchersJennifer Haveman
PowerPoint created to teach basic Boolean search logic to high school students. Geared for use with Internet search engines, but could be used for searching subscription databases.
Basic Boolean Searching for High School ResearchersJennifer Haveman
PowerPoint created to teach basic Boolean search logic to high school students. Geared for use with Internet search engines, but could be used for searching subscription databases.
Why and how to effectively search for information in search engines, databases and catalogues. The presentation covers how to identify keywords and why. Why and how to use boolean operators, phrase and field search and truncation or wildcard. Why eliminate stop words from search statement.
The literature review usually precedes a research proposal and results section. Its goals are to situate the current study within the body of literature and to provide context for the particular reader. Literature reviews are important for research in nearly every academic field.
Find even more relevant information for your academic work by using "Searches using keywords".
AU Studypedia (http://studypedia.au.dk/en) is a free online study tool, that you as a university student can use when writing assignments, searching for literature and other study-related working methods. Here you can find concrete advice, inspiration and exercises for students on their first semester all the way to ph.d.-level.
AU Studypedia is rooted in Centre for Teaching development and Digital Media on Arts, Aarhus Universitet.
this ppt is about search engines and how they work and boolean operators like AND, NOT, OR Etc
this ppt will be helpful for those who re studying about it as well as if you don't know how to use search engine and using boolean operators :)
Why and how to effectively search for information in search engines, databases and catalogues. The presentation covers how to identify keywords and why. Why and how to use boolean operators, phrase and field search and truncation or wildcard. Why eliminate stop words from search statement.
The literature review usually precedes a research proposal and results section. Its goals are to situate the current study within the body of literature and to provide context for the particular reader. Literature reviews are important for research in nearly every academic field.
Find even more relevant information for your academic work by using "Searches using keywords".
AU Studypedia (http://studypedia.au.dk/en) is a free online study tool, that you as a university student can use when writing assignments, searching for literature and other study-related working methods. Here you can find concrete advice, inspiration and exercises for students on their first semester all the way to ph.d.-level.
AU Studypedia is rooted in Centre for Teaching development and Digital Media on Arts, Aarhus Universitet.
this ppt is about search engines and how they work and boolean operators like AND, NOT, OR Etc
this ppt will be helpful for those who re studying about it as well as if you don't know how to use search engine and using boolean operators :)
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Every search system offers a variety of features and special search techniques, and rarely are any two systems searched exactly the same way. There are, however, some common search strategies that you can use for databases and other systems.
Slides from the Webinar presentation for the Institute for Paralegal Education entiteld: The Paralegal's Guide to Using Google for Legal Research. Given June 10, 2013
2. How to get the most out of
Online Databases and
Internet ?
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4. • Search terms containing more than one word
Enclosing them in quotation marks, returns documents
containing the exact phrase only.
• An example: Searching for information on gun control
legislation, using "gun control" eliminates documents that
contain the words gun and control, but not in that order;
possibly in entirely different paragraphs and maybe not even
relating to the topic of gun control
5. • You want to broaden your search?
Use a root part of the word and abbreviate it
with an asterisk (garden*).
• The engine will return links to documents
containing gardens, garden, gardener,
gardeners, and so on.
6. • You can combine truncated terms with other
words using Boolean Operators.
Example: employ* AND education
will retrieve records which include the various
forms of employ and the word education.
7. • Boolean operators provide you with powerful
control over search engine logic.
• AND, OR, NOT (or AND NOT in some engines)
8.
9. • use the capitalized word AND between keywords.
The engine will only find documents that have both
words.
• Example – Search Food AND Nutrition would return
all documents that contain both words.
• Capitalize all letters in the word AND, otherwise the
search engine will treat it as a keyword, not as an
operator.
13. • NOT is used to exclude a particular word or
combination of words from your search
results.
• If you are retrieving many records that are
unrelated to your topic, try using the NOT
operator to eliminate a word.
15. • A "wild card" takes the place of letters within
a word and is an important way of catching
variant spellings.
• For example, the American spelling is color,
the British spelling is colour. To retrieve both
spellings, you might search for col*r.
16. • Use parentheses to clarify relationships
between search terms.
• Example: (television or mass media) and
women
• This search looks for both "television and
women" and "mass media and women."
17. • Stop words are commonly used words that will automatically
stop a computer keyword search because they occur too
frequently in records. Stop words are usually listed in the help
screens of whatever database you are using. Some stop
words are: the, an, at, for, from, then. When constructing a
keyword search, choose the most important words.
• Example: If you want to find information about "What are the
effects of Global Warming on agriculture?"
Your keywords are: global warming, effects, agriculture. The
words what, is, of, the, are not descriptive of your topic.