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Efficient Strategies for Effective Information Searching: Library Resources and Techniques

This guide outlines the essential processes for effective information searching, emphasizing the design of search strategies using library resources. It discusses the iterative nature of developing a search strategy, including the importance of stating research questions, identifying and ranking concepts with synonyms, and harnessing Boolean operators. Special focus is given to distinguishing between broad and specific keywords, managing multiple databases, and refining search results to ensure relevancy. Practical tips on avoiding plagiarism and correctly citing sources, along with the use of tools like RefWorks, are also included.

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Efficient Strategies for Effective Information Searching: Library Resources and Techniques

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  1. Our sessions ….. Information searching process Search strategy design Library resources Plagiarism, citing articles, RefWorks

  2. Information searching process • Thoughts • Feelings • Actions (from Kuhlthau)

  3. Information searching process • Iterative

  4. Designing a search strategy • State the research question • Develop some background by reading text, lecture notes, encyclopedia • Create a list of concepts including synonyms • Rank concepts by importance • Show relationships between concepts by using Boolean operators

  5. Boolean operators : and hydroxyapatite Artificial bone Hydroxyapatite and artificial bone hydrosyapatite Artificial bone

  6. Boolean operators : or Bone synthesis Artificial bone artificial bone or bone synthesis Artificial bone bone synthesis

  7. Boolean operators: not Lyme disease and neurological (Lyme disease and neurological) NOT child Lyme disease and neurological

  8. More details on search strategy • Think of concepts as keywords or potential subject headings

  9. Subject heading characteristics • Subject headings are assigned by librarians and subject specialists. • The words in a subject heading might not appear in the physical description categories (i.e. title). • Items on the same subject are grouped together.

  10. When you put in a keyword, the computer matches it exactly in the records. Keyword Records

  11. Keywords Larive, Cynthia K. and Bulska, Ewa. “Tipsfor effective poster presentations.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2006) 385: 1347–1349

  12. Broad vs. specific Specific is better since it imitates the way databases are organized. Your results will be relevant and manageable in number.

  13. University Libraries resources/databases Two concerns • Identifying appropriate resources/databases • Dealing with multiple search engines

  14. Search Engines: Common Points • Area to enter concepts • Specify fields to be searched • Use Boolean operators • Limiting by year, publication format, language • Display results

  15. Which database? University Libraries home page (www.libraries.rutgers.edu) FINDING ARTICLES on sidebar Indexes and databases By Subject By Title

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