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Principles of Searching
Tefko
Saracevic
LAB SESSION
1
This is a sketch of several
exercises that we will do in our first lab session. They will be fully explained
in the lab. Together we will examine the procedures, their meaning and the results.
If necessary, complete these exercises on your own later. Discuss them in your
group. There is no grading for these - so relax.
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1. Select, expand
search in
one file and finding possible thesaurus entries
- b 1
- s &
then also ss library and education/
- e library
- e Ex
(to get thesaurus listings)
- s r (purchase)
- ss sx
& sy
- type
full a few
2. Onesearch
searching
several files together and knowing what came from what file & finding authors
in those files
- b 1,202,438
(library files)
- ss library
and internet and censorship
- rd
- set detail
on
- e au=saracevic
- s anyrelevant
one from e list
- set detail
off
- cost
3. Save
temp
getting
ideas about food in Elizabethan times
- b 39
(historical abstracts)
- s Elizabeth
I
- ss Elizabeth(w)I
- you found
an article with Elizabethan Court
- ss Elizabethan(w)court
- ss food
or recipe or dining
- combine
them
- save
temp
- b47 (magazine
index)
- exs
- then
select relevant ones
- type
a few
4, Thesaurus
- again
finding
thesaurus terms through expand
- b 11
(Psych Abstracts)
- e learning
- e r
- s r for
dyslectic
- ss s1
and politic?
4 Citations
(exercize 2)
get number
of citations to my articles, excluding self-citations
- b 34,434,7
(Science Citation Index & Social Science Citation Index)
- e au=Saracevic
(articles with Saracevic as author)
- s ex,
ey ...…
- e ca=Saracevic
(cited author)
- s ex,
ey,…
- rd
- sx not
sy
- What
is the number?
5. Dialindex
- file 411:
finding
files to search for a topic
- b 411
- on banner
click databases, then either by name or number
- find Dialindex
or 411, click to get bluesheet
- on bluesheet
go to onesearch categories in the banner; click on Library & Information
Services (infosci)
- go to alphabetical
list of categories & supercategories
- sf infosci
- ss principles
(N4) searching
- save temp
- sort
- pick the
top database
- exs
- back to 411,
sf infosci
- e searching
- set detail
on
- e searching