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ALBUKHARY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION STUDIES PROGRAMME 2011-2012

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FCC133

INFORMATION LITERACY

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FCC133 INFORMATION LITERACY

Week 6 - Session 1Truncation and Wildcard

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Search Strategies

Basics

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Truncation

Truncation and wildcards broaden yoursearch capabilities by allowing you to retrieve

multiple spellings of a root word or word stem,

such as singular and plural forms.

Truncation is using a wildcard at the end of a

root word to search multiple variations of that

root word. Check a database's help section to

identify what symbol is used for a wildcard.

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Truncation

In this search example: protect* ORconserv* OR regulat* would retrievemultiple spellings of these synonyms.

Some databases may allow you to usetruncation at the beginning of words or within

words (this is called internal truncation).

Consult the help files in the database to

determine the availability of this feature.

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Example of Truncation

Truncation expands the search tolocate all words beginning with thesame root

Example: teen* will return teen, teens,teenage, teenager, etc.)

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FCC133 INFORMATION LITERACY

Week 6 - Session 2&3Phrase Searching

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Wildcard

A wildcard is a special character, suchas an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or

pound sign (#), that replaces one or

more letters in a word.A wildcard usually represents a single

character.

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Example of Wildcard

A Wildcard is used in the middle of a wordto match usually known variants of a term.

Example: wom?n will return woman, women,and womyn.

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Phrase Searching

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Phrase Searching

Phrase searching is when you use a string of words(instead of a single word) to search with.

By using phrase searching you will retrieve fewerresults!

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Phrase Searching

You might be looking for information on informationliteracy. Each one of these words has a differentmeaning when standing alone and will retrieve manyirrelevant documents, but when you put themtogether the meaning changes to the very precise

concept ofinformation literacy".

For the database to understand your search, youshould put your phrase between brackets ( ) orinverted commas ".

Type your search as follows:

information literacy" or(information literacy)

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