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Start Here:Subject Guides

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Conn ecti ng to theSubject database

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Information Tools

Decide the kind of information that you needChoose the access tool to help you locate it

B ooks catalogue Articles index or a database Government information website

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W ebsites

To Find:Current information

Gov t informationShared opinionsAssociation andProf l organizationmission statements,

publications,philosophies

Use: Google Scholar Library subject guides Association,

organization, oreducational institutionportals

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B ooks

To find:

historical background,major research.Or the broad scopeof your topic

Use library catalogues B orrow via inter-library

loan Google Scholar

books

Search strategy: broadterms; browse

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Articles

To find:Current informationFocused informationElectronic accessScholarly researchCase studies

News reports

Use: Library indexes and

databases Google scholar

Search strategy More focused

terms usingadvanced searchfeatures of theindex or database

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Ready, Set, W ait!!!

Construct a GOOD search strategy12Robertson, 2009

B efore you start

searching on GoogleScholar or using aLibrary Database, youneed to do one more

step -

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Natural Language

OK for GoogleDOES N OT work with library databases

Example: active learning impact student achievement

secondary

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Constructing a Keyword Search

ANDOR

$,*

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B oolean Operator AND

AND = LESSrecords must include B OTH conceptsuse and between required concepts

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active learning AND secondary

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activelear n ing

sec on dary

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B oolean Operator OROR = MORErecords must include EITHER conceptuse or between synonymsenclose synonyms in brackets.

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(secondary OR high school)

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W ildcard Symbol

Rather than: engineer or engineers or engineered or engineering

Use the root of the word plus the wildcardsymbol to find all variations of the word

Here s how .

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E ach database has its o wn wildcard sy m bo l.

$ ? ! * are the mo st c ommon

E N G I N E E R

E N G I N E E R SE N G I N E E R I N GE N G I N E E R E D

E N G I N E E R *

U se the wildcard sy m bo l on the e n d of the w o rd r oo t:

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Q uotation Marks

Search: Hockey Night In Canada retrieves: A day and night in the life of Canada, by

John Hockey.

B etter Search: Hockey Night in Canada

retrieves only the specific phrase

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The B rackets also Guide the Search

Use brackets so the search engine executes yoursearch properly.

ORs go inside bracketsANDs go between brackets

(high school or secondary) and (active learn$)

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To summarize

retrieve MORE wildcard symbol OR between synonyms

broader termretrieve LESS

quotation marks AND

more precise termretrieve B ETTER or more precise results Combine the above techniques to build a

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End of Module I

Module 1 : Mapping out your area of studyand refining your search.

Module 2 : Using Refworks

Module 3: Using Library Indexes

Module 4: Searching using Google Scholar

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Credits

Thanks to Susan Pratt for sharing slides andideas; Gavin Lobo for design; and KateGibbings, Education Librarian, for updates

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