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Good Search Statements
…or thinking more about searching than you ever have
before…
The Vending Machine Search Statement
I’m hungry
Sweet or salty?
M&M’sOreosHoHo’s
Butterfinger
Trail MixHoney Chex Mix
Potato ChipsFritos
NachosSun Chips
A15B4
B16C3
Butterfinger
A1C10
A6A20B3C4
Sun Chips
Trail Mix
The information search topic
• Keywords / Search terms
• Gardasil• Human papilloma virus• HPV• STDs• Cervical cancer• Genital warts• Girls• Adolescents• Parental rights• Vaccine• Prevention• Public health• Mandatory vaccination• Sex education
• Search Statement
Gardasil AND prevention
Vaccin* “parental rights”
Adolescents and STDs
“cervical cancer” AND HPV
+vaccine +parents +HPV
“public health” AND “mandatory vaccination”
“public health” AND “parental rights”
Merck & Co.’s “One Less” ad campaign for the humanpapilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil
Different results
for every kind of search
Deconstructing a search statement
HPV AND
TERMS CONNECTORS
vaccine
HPV and vaccine
Terms
Keyword Searching
• WHAT:Using words that may occur somewhere in a document, such as the title, description (abstract) or full-text of the resource itself.
• WHERE:Library catalogs, article databases, Web search engines (like Google).
Vaccine AND HPV
Subject Heading Search• WHAT:
Using standard terms or subject headings that have been identified by an editor to represent the main focus of a document.
• WHERE:Library catalogs, article databases and some other Web databases.
Papillomavirus vaccines
become
Food safety
Food irradiation
Safety of genetically modified foods
Pesticide residue on food products
Food safety
Turning a keyword search into a subject heading search
Food safety becomes
•Food Safety
•Food irradiation
•Safety of genetically modified foods
•Pesticide residue on food products
Turning a subject heading search into a keyword search
Narrowing
Least specific to most specific
food manufacturers
cereal manufacturers
General Mills
Broadening Most specific to least specific
Gordon Gee
OSU presidents
university presidents
Connectors
Boolean
AND
OR
NOT
education AND computers
film OR cinema
Buckeyes NOT trees
Phrases
“paris hilton” paris hilton (AND is usually assumed)
Limits
Language
English
en Español
Date
1899
1861
2007
Publication Type
Book
Newspaper
Scholarly ArticleMovie
Limits in Google
Limits in an article database
Limits in a library catalog
Let’s TryUsing These Strategies