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Good Search Statements

Good Search Statements. …or thinking more about searching than you ever have before…. The Vending Machine Search Statement. I’m hungry. M&M’s Oreos HoHo’s Butterfinger. Potato Chips Fritos Nachos Sun Chips. Sweet or salty?. A6 A20 B3 C4. A15 B4 B16 C3. Trail Mix

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Good Search Statements

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  1. Good Search Statements …or thinking more about searching than you ever have before…

  2. The Vending Machine Search Statement I’m hungry M&M’s Oreos HoHo’s Butterfinger Potato Chips Fritos Nachos Sun Chips Sweet or salty? A6 A20 B3 C4 A15 B4 B16 C3 Trail Mix Honey Chex Mix A1 C10 Sun Chips Butterfinger Trail Mix

  3. Keywords / Search terms Gardasil Human papilloma virus HPV STDs Cervical cancer Genital warts Girls Adolescents Parental rights Vaccine Prevention Public health Mandatory vaccination Sex education Search Statement Gardasil AND prevention Vaccin* “parental rights” Adolescents and STDs “cervical cancer” AND HPV +vaccine +parents +HPV “public health” AND “mandatory vaccination” “public health” AND “parental rights” The information search topic Merck & Co.’s “One Less” ad campaign for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil Different results for every kind of search

  4. Deconstructing a search statement HPV and vaccine HPV AND vaccine TERMS CONNECTORS

  5. Terms

  6. WHAT: Using words that may occur somewhere in a document, such as the title, description (abstract) or full-text of the resource itself. WHERE:Library catalogs, article databases, Web search engines (like Google). Keyword Searching Vaccine AND HPV

  7. Subject Heading Search Papillomavirus vaccines • WHAT:Using standard terms or subject headings that have been identified by an editor to represent the main focus of a document. • WHERE:Library catalogs, article databases and some other Web databases.

  8. Turning a keyword search into a subject heading search Food safety Food irradiation Safety of genetically modified foods Pesticide residue on food products Food safety become

  9. Turning a subject heading search into a keyword search • Food Safety • Food irradiation • Safety of genetically • modified foods • Pesticide residue on • food products Food safety becomes

  10. Narrowing Least specific to most specific food manufacturers cereal manufacturers General Mills

  11. BroadeningMost specific to least specific university presidents OSU presidents Gordon Gee

  12. Connectors

  13. Boolean AND education AND computers OR film OR cinema NOT Buckeyes NOT trees

  14. Phrases “paris hilton” paris hilton (AND is usually assumed)

  15. Limits

  16. Language English en Español

  17. Date 1861 1899 2007

  18. Publication Type Movie Scholarly Article Newspaper Book

  19. Limits in Google

  20. Limits in an article database

  21. Limits in a library catalog

  22. Let’s Try Using These Strategies

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