The document discusses advanced search techniques for researching the topic of job discrimination against women in Japan, including using Boolean operators, truncation, phrase searching and excluding common words. It recommends customizing the search settings and using terms like "female", "women", "discrimination", and "employ*" to find relevant sources while excluding results with words like "employer" or "the".

1.  Advanced Search for your assignment
 Before your search
Job Discrimination Female Japan
Work Unfair Woman Japanese
Employment Inequity Women
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2.  Advance Search for your assignment topic
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 You can customize your search settings in
advanced search

4.  Boolean Operators
Female OR Women
Female AND
Discrimination
Female Discrimination Female Women
AND OR
Employ* Employer
Employ* NOT Employer
NOT
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5.  Truncation
◦ Use * symbol to search words with varied endings:
employment, employee, employees
employ*
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6.  Wild card
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7.  Phase search
◦ Search two words together in exact order
◦ E.g. Use “Job discrimination” to find “job” and
“discrimination” next to each other
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 Stop Word
◦ In search engines, a stop word is a commonly used
word that a search engine has been programmed to
ignore
◦ E.g. “the”, “a”, “an” and preposition

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