Advanced search skills

GEN1000

Perspectives on General Education

Librarian in Class

HSMC Library

Advanced Search for your assignment

Before your search

Job Discrimination Female Japan

Work Unfair Woman Japanese

Employment Inequity Women

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Advance Search for your assignment topic

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You can customize your search settings in advanced search

Boolean Operators

Female OR Women Female AND

Discrimination

Female Discrimination Female Women

AND OR

Employ* Employer

Employ* NOT Employer

NOT

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Truncation ◦ Use * symbol to search words with varied endings: employment, employee, employees

employ*

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Wild card

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Phase search

◦ Search two words together in exact order

◦ E.g. Use “Job discrimination” to find “job” and “discrimination” next to each other

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Stop Word

◦ In search engines, a stop word is a commonly used word that a search engine has been programmed to ignore

◦ E.g. “the”, “a”, “an” and preposition

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