1. How to… Research Like An Expert!

2. Today’s Goals By the end of the period, I will: understand Boolean search operators have created a successful search string, using my key terms have found at least two journal articles from a research database for my review of literature

3. It’s all about process! 1. Choose a topic…i.e. BROWSE! 2. Find general/background information. 3. Focus and narrow your topic. 4. Determine what information you need. 5. Plan your search strategy. 6. Search!

4. Online research databases full-text articles, from a variety of sources academic journals, books, magazines, etc. full access from home! access from your Assignments pageAssignments page determine the “subject” the database defines for your topic choose Subject Guide search broaden your results by “related subjects” narrow your results by “subdivisions”

5. How to… Use BOOLEAN Search Operators

6. Boolean Operators AND OR NOT exact phrases truncation

7. AND Must contain BOTH terms e.g. dating AND teens datingteens Only the articles with BOTH terms will appear in your results list

8. OR Must contain EITHER term use for synonyms or spelling variations e.g. teens OR youth; color OR colour teensyouth ALL of the articles would appear in your results list.

9. NOT Must contain one term but NOT the other sometimes AND NOT e.g. dating NOT violence datingviolence Only those “dating” articles that do not contain “violence” will appear in your results list.

10. Exact Phrases use quotation marks “ ” or parentheses ( ) to search for an exact phrase e.g. “Prime Minister”

11. Truncation Searches for multiple forms of a word either ? or * e.g. Canad* will retrieve… Canada Canada’s Canadian Canadians

12. Search strings Combine Boolean operators for more powerful searches fewer, but more accurate results e.g. you're looking for information on teen dating habits, but not about date rape/violence (teen* OR youth) AND (dating OR relationships) NOT (rape OR violen*)

13. teen* OR youth dating OR relationships rape OR violen* Only these articles will appear in your results list (teen* OR youth) AND (dating OR relationships) NOT (rape OR violen*)

14. Keywords for Searching Chocolate Candy-coated Chocolate Bar Bubbles Chocolate Bar Wafer Chocolate Bar Wafer Coffee Let’s try some examples…

15. Using Boolean in the databases… Once you’ve determined your “subjects” (using a “subject guide search”), go to the Advanced Search tab Choose the appropriate Boolean search operator Each search box represents a single idea (i.e. you can type Boolean terms in yourself – e.g. teen* OR youth) Let’s try a PowerSearch…

16. Today’s task… Strategize create a list of key terms map out your search strategy, including Boolean search strings Collect info don’t spend too much time reading only determine whether it might be useful just gather articles & information to evaluate and read through later

17. Questions…?