Finding Good Quality information for Research Project Flashcards
Why is it important to search well?
What is the first step in developing a search strategy?
break down the question into key concepts
what are the key concepts of this question?
oral cancer
binge drinking
when developing search strategy, after we have found the key concepts of the q, whats the next stage?
choose search terms (key words)
when searching keywords, what kind of words do we need to be including?
identify search terms for these concepts:
binge drinking oral cancer
what is a truncation?
when is ? used
put that in a word where a letter may or may not be present
when is hashtag used
varying character similar to the ?, but there must be the character there
show how binge drinking could be modified when getting typed in to get more results
show how oral cancer could be modified when getting typed in to get more results
what are subject headings (e.g. MeSH)?
once identified search terms + subject headings, what is to be done next?
combine search terms
what do we use to combine your search terms?
boolean operators
OR AND
what does ‘OR’ do to a search word?
what does ‘AND’ do to a search word?
