1. Creating a Search Statement: Boolean

2. Information Overload Finding reliable information Library Databases Researching a topic

3. Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently?

4. Combine concepts television AND violence teenagers AND Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently? Boolean Operators: And: Combines Concepts

5. Synonyms/Closely Related Words Hispanics: kids: obesity: Common knowledge Subject Terms/Thesaurus words from abstracts

6. Synonyms/Closely Related Words Hispanics: Mexican-American, Latinos, Chicanos kids: youth, children, teenagers, toddlers, adolescent obesity: fat, overweight television: violence: teenagers:

7. Select words to express concept. Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently? AND television OR TV violence OR anger OR bully AND teenagers OR minors OR youth Boolean Operators: OR: Combines Synonyms

8. Boolean Searching – Week One Write a clear statement about topic Divide topic statement into concepts Find synonyms for keywords

9. Boolean Search Statement Is television to blame for teenagers who behave violently television OR media violence OR anger teenagers OR Youth OR minors AND

10. Expanding your Search Truncation retrieves the various (variant) forms of a word Example: industrial

11. Truncate: Industr*

12. To truncate in databases, use [shift] and asterisk *

13. Truncate the following terms: sexist disability education

14. sexism: sexis* includes: sexist, sexists, sexism disability: disab* includes: disabled, disability, disabilities education: educat* includes: educating, educated, educator

15. Example 2 Is there racial inequality in the workplace?

16. Divide Statement into Concepts Is there racial inequality in the workplace? AND inequality workplace racial

17. Select words to express each concept AND workplace OR employment OR jobs AND race OR ethnic OR minority Is there racial inequality in the workplace? inequality OR discrimination OR prejudice

18. Search in Academic Search Elite Default: Select a Field Narrow search to words only found in the: Title Abstract

19. Article retrieved by searching Title in Academic Search Elite

20. Article retrieved by searching Abstract in Academic Search Elite

21. Boolean Searching Write out your topic as a sentence Divide topic into main concepts Select additional words to express each concept Truncate where appropriate

22. In order to search in Library Databases you must first: Write out your topic in one or two sentences Select your topic main concepts 2 to 4 main concepts Concepts = poverty, Internet, obesity, college When you use: increase, type of, improve, caused = list out how it would be measured

23. Edit: Select a Field (optional) To narrow  Title  Subject Terms To broaden: must use truncation and synonyms first  Abstract  All Text