Advanced Searching

Good Work!

This module showed you more advanced database searching techniques.

Now you should be able to:

Come up with the best search terms and choose the best tool to search
Understand the difference between keyword and subject searching
Use boolean operators to create a successful search string
Understand when to use and what happens if you search by field or phrase and or use truncation in a search
Be able to successfully limit a search to retrieve those records that are most relevant
Customize search results and be able to e-mail or save results for later perusal.

You can continue to the next module Evaluating Sources.

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