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Searching

Introduction

This unit covers how to choose and use a database effectively, & how to build your research question and related keywords into search querie questions that can be understood by computer databases and library catalogs.

Objectives

• Distinguish a database from other types of information collections
• Identify the coverage of a database
• Understand the concept of field, and advanced searching in a database
• Construct effective search queries using logical operators (and/or/not) and related strategies