MIT 144F: Week9
Accessing Periodicals: Suggestions from the Hawkins and Waters
(1982) Article
From this article make sure that you understand both the list of reminders
and the four search strageties.
Hawkins' and Water's List of Reminders
- Be flexible
- Know your user (thyself)
- Don't be too restrictive
- Search most specific first
- Use thesauri
- Conceptualize
- Be aware of codes
- Use full text operators
- Truncate
- Be careful with NOT
- Alter the strategy to fit the database
- Watch for acronyms
- BROWSE
Some search strategies to consider
- Building blocks
- Successive fractions
- Citation pearl growing
- Most specific of least posted facet first
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Page created: 3 November 1997
Page updated: 4 November 1997