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Creating a Search Statement: Boolean

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Creating a Search Statement: Boolean

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Information Overload

Finding reliable information

Library Databases

Researching a topic

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Is television to blame for

teenagers who behave violently?

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Combine concepts

television AND violence

teenagersAND

Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently?

Boolean Operators:

And: Combines Concepts

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Synonyms/Closely Related Words

Hispanics: kids: obesity:

Common knowledge

Subject Terms/Thesaurus

words from abstracts

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Synonyms/Closely Related Words

Hispanics: Mexican-American, Latinos, Chicanos kids: youth, children, teenagers, toddlers,

adolescent obesity: fat, overweight

television: violence: teenagers:

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Select words to express concept.

Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently?

AND

televisionORTV

violenceOR

angerOR

bully

AND

teenagersOR

minorsOR

youth

Boolean Operators:

OR: Combines Synonyms

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Boolean Searching – Week One

Write a clear statement about topic

Divide topic statement into concepts

Find synonyms for keywords

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Boolean Search Statement

Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently

televisionOR

media

violenceOR

anger

teenagersOR

YouthOR

minors

AND

AND

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Expanding your Search

Truncation retrieves the various (variant) forms of a word

Example: industrial

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Truncate: Industr*

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To truncate in databases, use [shift] and

asterisk *

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Truncate the following terms:

sexist

disability

education

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sexism: sexis*

includes: sexist, sexists, sexism

disability: disab*

includes: disabled, disability, disabilities

education: educat*includes: educating, educated, educator

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Example 2

Is there racial inequality in the

workplace?

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Divide Statement into Concepts

Is there racial inequality in the workplace?

AND ANDinequality workpla

ceracial

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Select words to express each concept

AND

workplace

OR

employment

OR

jobs

AND

race

OR

ethnic

OR

minority

Is there racial inequality in the workplace?

inequality

OR

discrimination

OR

prejudice

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Search in Academic Search Elite

Default: Select a Field

Narrow search to words only found in the:

Title

Abstract

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Article retrieved by searching Title in Academic Search Elite

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Article retrieved by searching Abstract in Academic Search Elite

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Boolean Searching

Write out your topic as a sentence

Divide topic into main concepts

Select additional words to express each concept

Truncate where appropriate

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In order to search in Library Databases you must first:

Write out your topic in one or two sentences Select your topic main concepts

2 to 4 main concepts Concepts = poverty, Internet, obesity,

college When you use: increase, type of,

improve, caused = list out how it would be measured

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Edit: Select a Field (optional)

To narrow Title Subject Terms

To broaden: must use truncation and synonyms first Abstract All Text