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Education – ERIC Psychology – PsycINFO Leadership/management organizational behavior – ABI/Inform – Business Source Complete Databases and Disciplinary Perspectives Health care – Medline – CINAHL Speech Language Pathology – Linguistics and Language Behavior Computer Science – ACM – IEEE – Science Direct

Clothing: – Dress – Raiment – Garb – Attire – Garment – Apparel – Clothes – Outfit Controlled Vocabulary: - Used to look for “like” terms

Minority groups: – African Americans – Blacks – Latinos – Hispanics – Mexicans – Puerto Ricans – Native Americans – Asians – Chinese – Indians – Etc. Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary: - Scope Notes Scope note : “subgroups within a larger society that are distinguished from the majority and each other by race, national heritage, or sometimes by religious or cultural affiliation”.

Indians – Native Americans? – People from India? Mercury – God? – Metal? – Car? – Planet? Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary: - Precise results

Keyword Searching Using Boolean Operators

Descriptor Searching

“We want to look for concepts, but we are forced to search for words” (Walker & Janes as cited in Bell, 2011) – Pros and cons of Twitter – Empirical research articles on reading comprehension – Trends and issues in globalization Controlled Vocabulary

first grade inclusion math ESOL or TESOL unemployment Keyword Subject Heading Grade 1 inclusive schools mathematics English (Second Language) retrenchment

Cancer --- MeSH heading: neoplasms SCOPE: New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms. Used for: neoplasms, tumors, benign neoplasms, cancers Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary: - Helps broaden understanding of an unfamiliar topic

Controlled vocabulary in different databases for the same concept: Autism Advantages of Controlled Vocabulary: - Precise results

Others Use “Autistic Disorder” Medline CINAHL

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