Discover Discover

What is Discover?

• Information about Christopher Columbus

• The Library Webpage

• University of Sunderland's 'Google'

• The Library Catalogue

What does Discover do?

• Provides access to essays

• Makes it easier to copy and paste from sources

• Is a gateway to databases, reports and journals

• Lists useful addresses

How do you search Discover? (more than one right answer here)

• Put some words in and hope for the best

• Identify key terms and write them down

• Use Basic and Advanced Search

• Use sliders to limit date and publication type

What is a search strategy? When you use Discover? (more than one right answer)

• Making sure you look for the right book

• Deciding the most important things to look for

• Using 'AND,'OR','NOT'

• Writing down the different ways that a search word can be expressed eg; Obese, Fat, Overweight etc

What is a boolean operator?

• A piece of computer jargon

• A logical way of organising a search for information

• A satellite relay that forwards information for libraries

• An artificial language like Klingon

Which of these is not a part of a boolean search query?

• AND

• NOT

• PERHAPS

• OR

Why is using boolean operators important?

• You have to please them otherwise they get angry

• It allows you to narrow down your search

• It's not important at all

• It prevents datastack overflow in databases

Discover can search all of the text in a document?

• True - everything

• True - but only if its a full text document

• False - it only provides abstract summaries

• False - you have to subscribe to the journal

Discover provides access directly to every journal it lists

• Yes - everything

• Sometimes - depends on publisher access rights

• Sometimes it only lists an abstract

• No - it only provides general information

I don't need to know how Discover works to be able to use it (more than one answer here) :-)

• True - but you won't be able to make use of all its features

• Remembering everything is hard I'd better book a 121 with the librarian

• I just need a few sources for my essay

• No one will notice