Theme 2

Question 1

define truncations and wildcards

Answer 1

used to widen the search.

Question 2

what is the * used for

Answer 2

• is used to truncate words, e.g. depress* will find depressed, depression, depressive etc
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Question 3

what is thee # used for

Answer 3

is used to search for a variable single character, e.g. organi#ation will find organisation and organization

Question 4

what is the ? used for

Answer 4

? is used to search for a single character, or no character at all. This is very useful for some British and American spellings, e.g. orthop?edics will find both orthopaedics and orthopedics

Question 5

why is adjacency searching useful

Answer 5

if you want to look for papers where your words might appear NEAR each other rather than only right next to each other. To do this, separate your words with ADJn where n is the number.
e.g physician ADJ3 relationship will find the words physician and relationship within TWO major words of each other in any direction

Question 6

how to combine searches

Answer 6

Boolean Operators AND + OR