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Discovering what you want is at least as important and finding what you know you

want.

Known item searching

Discovering what you want is at least as important and finding what you know you

want.

Where are we going with this?

Carol Kuhthau’s ISP (Information Search Process)

• Initiation • Selection • Exploration • Formulation

• Collection• Presentation • Assessment

Carol Kuhthau’s ISP (Information Search Process)

Carol Kuhthau’s ISP (Information Search Process)

Carol Kuhthau’s ISP (Information Search Process)

So the question is:• What are the parts of your assigned database that

help searches w/ the various stages of the ISP?

• Initiation • Selection • Exploration • Formulation

• Collection • Presentation • Assessment

Let’s do some sample searching…

• Full text keyword searching: searches all fields and content for search terms. (You can search the database even if you don’t know the subject.)

• Controlled Vocabulary: Also known as subjects, topics, thesaurus, descriptors (major and minor)

• Glossary of terms: Similar to a thesaurus, helps define terms as used in this tool. (Example: equity in a sociology database versus in an economics database.)

• Reference Works: Encyclopedia, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works answer simple questions scholarly articles assume.