English 1301 - Beaty, Salinas, Cruz, Portales, Sandler, & Riley: Social & Environmental Controversies: Devise Strategy

So...what's the difference between KEYWORD v. SUBJECT searching?

• Keyword search = to combine key words or for more specific search; finds items that contain your keywords
• Subject search = for broad search or when you know terminology; finds items that are about that topic
• Use keyword and subject searching together: start with a keyword search, find an item that's relevant, then look for subject headings within item descriptions and incorporate those subject words into your search strategy.

Which search statement would give you the FEWEST number of hits?

Which search statement would give you the FEWEST number of hits?

Which search would find the LEAST amount of search results? (Tip: the * finds alternate endings)

Which search statement would give you the FEWEST number of hits?

Which search statement would give you the FEWEST number of hits?

Truncation broadens your search by allowing you to retrieve all variant endings or spellings of that word.

Truncation is the use of an asterisk (*) to replace one or more letters in a search term.

The keyword search vegetarian* AND diet* will retrieve fewer hits than vegitarian* OR diet*