Title: The Electronic Research
1The Electronic Research
2SEARCH STRATEGIES
- Boolean Operators
- AND, OR, NOT
- Proximity Operators
- Selecting Database
3BOOLEAN OPERATORS
4The OR Boolean Operator
Use the word OR to group together synonyms and
near synonyms between search terms.
CONCEPT B
CONCEPT A
CANINE
DOG
HOUND
CONCEPT C
5The AND Boolean Operator
You would use AND to intersect all the material
on EDUCATION and all the material on PSYCHOLOGY
CONCEPT A
PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATION
CONCEPT B
6The NOT Boolean Operator
The Boolean NOT operator eliminates records
containing the phrase corporal punishment.
CONCEPT A
DISCIPLINE
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
CONCEPT B
7TRUNCATION
- In a search, the ability to enter the first part
of a keyword, insert a symbol (usually ), and
accept any variant spellings or word endings,
from the occurrence of the symbol forward.(E.g.,
teach retrieves teach, teacher, teachers,
teaching, etc.)
8Proximity Operators/Connectors
- Adjacent
- drug adj abuse
- The word drug must be in front of, and adjacent
to, the word abuse - Within
- drug w/5 abuse
- The words drugs and abuse must be within 5 words
of each other (before or after) - Same
- drug same abuse
- The words drugs and abuse must be in the same
field
9Web Accessible Resources
- Ebooks (45,076)
- Government Documents
- Journal Articles
- Reference Books
- 80 total electronic resources, 80 available
via remote access, Most provide full or partial
text.
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12Electronic Resource Gateways
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14Remote Access
- After selecting a database you will be asked for
your Username and Password (this will
authenticate you for a search session). - Username is the first 4 characters of your last
name plus the last 4 digits of Campus Wide I.D.
(CWID)number. Jones, John /
12345678 jone5678 O'Brian, Carol /
12345678 obri5678 Lee, Kelly /
12345678 lee5678 - Password is your full CWID (example 12345678)
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18How to Access
- http//www.netLibrary.com/
- Sign up for an account using one of the campus
computers or the proxy menu. - You create your own user name and password.
19General Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- eLibrary curriculum
- InfoTrac Onefile
- Research Library
- Wilson OmniFile FullText
20ACCESS TO ERIC
- ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
-Information culled from the journals included in
Current Index to Journals in Education and
Resources in Education Index. (It indexes both
journal articles and educational documents).
Designed for teachers, students, administrators,
researchers and others interested in the field of
education. Full text of over 2,200 digests,
including references for even more information.
Citations and abstracts from over 980 educational
and education-related journals. EBSCO, or
Government Web Site.
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22SEARCH STRATEGIES
- Boolean Operators
- AND, OR, NOT
- Search Engine Math
- add
- - take out
- x multiply
23SEARCH ENGINE MATH
- Before learning math, its a helpful reminder
that the more specific your search is, the more
likely you will find what you want. -
- Dont be afraid to tell the search engine exactly
what you are looking for.
24USING THE SYMBOL TO ADD
- Imagine that you want to find pages that contain
information on lady in Crawford, TX who giving
the president a hard time. And you can only
remember her first name. You could search this
way crawford cindy - Only pages that contain both words would appear
in the results. (but in this case mostly for the
supermodel.) - A better search would be crawford texas cindy
25USING THE - SYMBOL TO SUBTRACT
- Sometimes you want a search engine to find pages
that have one word on them and not another.
Suppose you want information on The Apprentice
Show but nothing about Donald Trump. - Searching Apprentice -Trump will remove any
pages about Donald Trump.
26USING QUOTATION MARKS TO MULTIPLY
- Doing a phrase search allows you to tell a search
engine to give you pages where the terms appear
in exactly the order you specify. - 911 terrorist attack would return only pages
that have all the words in the exact order shown.
27Tips or How to
- Each search engine or subject directory has a
link to learn more about it. - How to Choose the Search Tools You Need by UC
Berkeley Library http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teach
ingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html - Search Engine Showdown http//www.notess.com/searc
h/
- Each search engine or subject directory has a
link to learn more about it. - How to Choose the Search Tools You Need by UC
Berkeley Library http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teach
ingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html - Search Engine Showdown http//www.notess.com/searc
h/
28 URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
This part of the URL tells your software what
protocol to use. (I.e. http or ftp)
This is the name of the document that is being
requested.
www is usually found in front of the domain,
indicating web pages.
http//www.tamut.edu/bus-fin/comtel/labs/main.htm
tamut.edu is the domain.
Folder names are between slashes,
bus-fin, comtel, and labs are individual
folders found on this server.
29DOMAINS
Foreign countries domains
United States first level Domains .net
.edu .com .org .mil .gov
Canada .ca
Sweden .se
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33Selection
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35EVALUATION OF WEBSITES
- Authorship - are the authors known are there
links to find out more information about them
can they be contacted? - Comparability with related sources- How reliable
and complete are the facts? - Stability of information - Is the site here
today, gone tomorrow? - Currency of information - when was it last
updated ? - Treatment and Objectivity - is the site biased
what is the writing level? - Style - is this a commercial site for advertising
purposes or an institutional site for providing
information?
36How to use the databases.
- If you need more instruction on how to use the
databases sign up for a class. - Sign-up link on the library homepage
http//library.tamut.edu .
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42Questions?