Advanced Searching in Online Resources
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Advanced Searching in Online
Resources Presented by:
Jane Healy and Julie Erickson
Call in: +1 (866) 410-8397 Participant code: 6052951994
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Advanced Searching in Online Resources
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Road Map
• Tactics
• World Book
• Proquest
• SIRS
• WorldCat
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“People fluent in search and retrieval not only save time, but are far more likely to find higher quality, more credible, more useful content.…People with these skills are effectively smarter”
-Daniel M Russell—Google research scientist
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
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What Steps Do You Use?
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Three Tips
• If at first you don’t succeed try, try again
• Look for search terms in results
• Start with general terms and narrow down
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Exact phrase “ “ quotation marks
Truncation * asterisk
Wildcard #, ? Question mark/pound sign
Toolbox
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The Boolean Machine
http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean/
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World Book
• I have used World Book before.
• Finding what I want in World Book is:
-easy
-medium hard
-difficult
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ProQuest • I have used ProQuest before
• I have used these:
– Limiting results to full text
– Basic search limiters
– Advanced search
– Publication search
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SIRS
• I have used SIRS Discoverer.
• I have used SIRS Issues Researcher.
• Finding what I want in SIRS is
-easy
-medium hard
-difficult
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WorldCat
• I have used WorldCat for
– Interlibrary loan
– Cataloging
– Other
• I have used these search features:
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