fletcherenglish1102 - ott
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Comic by Bill Watterson
Library Research
0What do I want to know?
0 Define an information need and develop a strategy
0How do I find it?
0 Know where to look
0 Implement search strategy
0How do I know it’s right for me?
0 Evaluate information before you use it
Define an Information Need
0Review your assignment
0 How many sources? What type(s)? What is the audience? What is the intended purpose
0Brainstorm ideas
0 Talk to friends; browse web; read newspaper
0 Identify main topic and related concepts
0 Use a thesaurus; break down by subtopic
0Put it all together
0 Develop a search strategy
Identifying Keywords
0Take your topic and make it a question…
0Now in that question identify the significant terms in your question.
0These terms are the keywords you will use to search for sources.
Search TermsConcept 1
AND
Concept 2
AND
Concept 3
Main idea Related idea Subtopic
OR OR OR
Synonym Synonym Synonym
OR OR OR
Synonym Synonym Synonym
• Use “ “ or ( ) to keep words together & in order• Connect different concepts with AND• Connect similar concepts with OR
Boolean Operators
0AND = narrow
0OR = expand
0NOT = exclude
AND is automatically used by Google and other search engines to combine terms
Sometimes a program will use a + or – to substitute for AND or NOT
Tips and Tricks forBetter Searching
0 Don’t type in your question:0 Use Boolean Operators
with keywords
0 Use keyword phrases with “” or ()
0 Wildcard (? or #)0 ne?t finds
neat, nest, next
0 colo#r finds color or colour
0 Truncation (*)0 comput* finds computer
or computing
0 Proximity0 N= near regardless of
order0 tax N5 reform finds tax
reform as well as reform of income tax
0 W= in the order they were entered0 tax W8 reform finds tax
reform but not reform of income tax
Finding Articles
0Use GALILEO to access databases
0Use your SWAN credentials to log into Galileo from off campus
GALILEO Link
1. Type in Keywords in the boxes… Notice the operators
2. Limitersa) Full textb) Scholarlyc) Date
0 “Quotes” – returns Exact results of the search term
0 Especially good for stop words or words that are ignored like “a, an, the”
0Operators
0 AND – results contain all search terms
0 OR – results contain either search terms
0Google Scholar
0 http://scholar.google.com/
Google Searching within Queries
0 site: results from only a specific site
0 site:edu
0 site: harvard.edu
0 filetype: results in only the filetype specified
0 filetype:ppt|pdf|doc
0 intitle: results from terms only in the title
0 intitle:Clayton
Symbols in Google
0 + disables synonym searching
0 - excludes a word
0~ requests synonym searching
0 | works like an OR operator
0 * wildcard terms (fills in the blank)
0# … # range of things like dates, prices, and measurements
Google Image Searching
0 Creative Commons = Copyright free
0 search.creativecommons.org
0 Search by image category
0Use the color chips to find images by color
0Drag your image into the search box
0 Camera icon plus image URL or upload