Information searching process

You will see ... In the search results when you search for siz*

• size

• sizing

• sized

• all of the previous

The information you get in a full-text database is ...

• DOI

• Recommendation

• The entire text of an article

• The author's email

....searches by interests (tags) by default

• ACADEMIA

• LinkedIn

• ResearchGate

• None of the previous

For phrase searching we use ....

• Quotation marks" "

• Parentheses ()

• Curly braces {}

• Square brackets [ ]

We use the symbol ... to replace a single letter in the search process as search technique

• [ ]

• &

• ?

• !

When (A) is a false search result and ( A B ) is a true search result , you search for ...

• A

• A AND B

• A AND NOT B

• A OR B

We can express the search process A OR B by Venn graph :

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We search for.... to get ( civilisation) in the search results

• civilization

• civili?ation

• civili[!s]ation

• None of the previous

In bibliographic database you may find...

• Author's name

• Abstract

• Some figures

• All of the previous

The first step in your search process is to ...

• Define the subject

• Write bibliography

• Read citations

• Define structure