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Video Tutorial: Searching as Exploration

Video: Choosing a Database

Quiz: Choosing a Database

Tutorial: Choosing & Using Keywords

  • Introduction 
  • What are Keywords? 
  • Vocabulary
  • Important Concepts
  • Test Your Skills
  • Searching With Keywords
  • Try Synonyms
  • Test Your Skills
  • Where to Find Additional Keywords
  • Conclusion 

Quiz: Choosing and Using Keywords

Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 1

  • Searching Library Resources 
  • Keywords
  • Brainstorm
  • Thesaurus
  • Test Your Skills
  • Natural Language Searching 
  • Boolean Operators
  • Boolean Operators: And 
  • Boolean Operators: Or
  • Boolean Operators: Not
  • Quotation Marks 
  • Nesting 
  • Test Your Skills 

Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 2

  • Introduction 
  • Full-Text Searching vs Field Searching 
  • Quality vs. Quantity 
  • Checkpoint 1
  • Subject Searching 
  • Look Up Subjects
  • Thesaurus
  • Truncation & Wildcard
  • Wildcard Symbols
  • Checkpoint 2
  • Limiting Your Search 
  • Using Limits 
  • Checkpoint 3
  • Conclusion 

Video: Refining Search Results

Quiz: Search Tenchniques