Search Words & Search Strategies
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- The terms that best describe a topic. The term keywords is also used in some databases to describe searching terms in multiple fields.
- A type of database that indicates what print and electronic holdings are available at a certain library or library system.
- A small group of two or more words
- To cut off. When used in searching, a symbol such as an asterisk (*), is added to the truncated word allowing the database to replace one or multiple
- Similar to truncation, but replaces only one letter, most often within a word.
- the words a database uses as the topics of articles and books on the same topic: not unlike tagging in social media
- will return results with two words or phrases that appear in the resource within so many words of each other
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