library database searching
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Library Database Searching
Linda Neyer
Feb. 2013
What are you looking for?
Books Periodicals Gray Lit(monographs) (serials) (gov docs,etc.)
General Interest Special Interest (e.g. Newspapers, (Subject or Discipline Magazines) Specific)
Trade Publ. Scholarly Publ.
-news -peer-reviewed, refereed-secondary -primary research (although also contains
secondary) -also called ‘academic’
journals
NOTE: Format may be print OR electronic
Where can you search for it?
Books Catalogs, Google Books, Library Databases
Periodicals Library Databases, Google Scholar
Gray Lit Catalogs, Library Databases
Boolean logicA search for ‘rock AND roll’ will locate all records containing both the word "rock" and the word "roll.” (same as ‘all’)
A search for ‘rock OR roll’ will locate all records containing either the word "rock" or the word "roll" -- not necessarily both. (same as ‘any’)
A search for rock NOT roll will
locate records containing the
word "rock" but NOT the word
"roll" .
Truncation
To find words that have the same root or ‘trunk’, use truncation.
For example, truncate the rootadolesc* to retrieve:
adolescentadolescentsadolescence, etc.
Questions?