Molecular & Cell Biology 2014 HONOURS INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN 2014 E-mail: [email protected]Telephone: 021 650 2773 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAl ike 3.0 Unported License .
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SEARCHING DATABASES1. Write down your topic in its
simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3
2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1
BACTERIA
FUNGI
CONCEPT 2
DAIRY
MEAT
VEGETABLES
CONCEPT 3
AGRICULTURE
The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
Concept 1 Concept 3Concept 2
3. Construct your search strategy Boolean logic provides the language you use to structure your keyword search … the search engine needs to know how your search terms relate to each other
In Boolean searching, you make use of the three Boolean operators:
AND OR NOT
Use AND to combine different concepts :
Bacteria AND Food
BACTERIA FOOD
Use OR to enter keywords for the same (single) concept :
dairy OR meat OR vegetables
Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
bacteria NOT E. coli
Microorganisms OR
BacteriaOR
Fungi
Food
OR
Dairy
OR
Meat
OR
Vegetables
AgricultureAND
CONCEPT 1
Microorganisms
Bacteria
Fungi
CONCEPT 2
Food
Dairy
Meat
Vegetables
CONCEPT 3
Agriculture
AND
The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR FUNGI
FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES
AGRICULTURE
(MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR FUNGI) AND (FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES) AND AGRICULTURE
4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen