Ms. Fox's Classes

Databases

Student Resources In Context

Academic One File

Search Engines

Google Advanced Search

(narrow results by domain, date etc.)

Searching Strategies

Keyword search: Quick way to retrieve many results.

Subject search: Retrieves search terms in the subject heading category. Subject headings are predetermined words assigned to a topic. 

Boolean logic (broad vs. narrow)

AND: Limits Search e.g. ostracism and psychological effects

OR: Expands Search e.g. crack or cocaine or coke

NOT: Excludes terms e.g. manic depression  not bipolar disorder

EXACT PHRASE: Putting quotations around phrase/sentence e.g. "assisted suicide"

Truncation: Uses symbols or wildcards to replace letters in words. You use them to get more results.

e.g. Schizophren* searches schizophrenia, schizophrenic, schizophrenic



Remember to keep C.A.R.P. in mind when evaluating Internet sources

Currency
Authority
Reliability/Relevance
Purpose/Point of View