GEN1000

Perspectives on General Education

Librarian in Class

HSMC Library

Advanced Search for your assignment

Before your search

Job Discrimination Female Japan

Work Unfair Woman Japanese

Employment Inequity Women

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Advance Search for your assignment topic

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You can customize your search settings in advanced search

Boolean Operators

Female OR Women Female AND

Discrimination

Female Discrimination Female Women

AND OR

Employ* Employer

Employ* NOT Employer

NOT

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Truncation ◦ Use * symbol to search words with varied endings: employment, employee, employees

employ*

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Wild card

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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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