2. What encourages young
people in America to
vote?
Copying and pasting this sentence into an
online catalog or database
search box will NOT yield you (m)any results!!!
3.
4.
5. • 2 Newspaper articles
• 1 Magazine article
• 1 Scholarly journal article
3 of which were irrelevant!
9. HOW do you combine your different search
terms to find the results you are looking for?
Use Boolean operators and
truncation with your search terms to help
you create effective search strings
10. Connecting terms that broaden or narrow a
search
AND narrows your search
OR broadens your search
11. Use AND to connect two different key
concepts
FOR EXAMPLE:
Voting AND Youth
12. Use OR to connect similar or alternate terms
that convey one of your concepts
FOR EXAMPLE:
Youth OR Young People OR Young Adults
13. RESEARCH QUESTION: What encourages
young people to vote?
My two key concepts are:
YOUNG PEOPLE and VOTE
Say, I want to look in DuCat for books that
address BOTH of those concepts.
How can I do this?
25. AND OR
NARROWS your
search
Gives you FEWER
You want sources that
are about BOTH Topic
1 AND Topic 2
BROADENS your
search
Gives you MORE
You want sources that
are about EITHER Topic
1 OR Topic 2
26.
27. Way to search for
variations on a
search term using
the base
DuCat uses $
Databases use *
College$
◦ college
◦ colleges
Universit$
◦ university
◦ universities
Vot$
◦ vote
◦ votes
◦ voted
◦ voting
votive
28. Vot$ AND (youth OR young people OR
young adults)
How many titles
do you get?
29. Which gives you MOST?
a. cars
b. cars AND automobiles
c. cars OR automobiles
30. Which gives you MOST?
a. cars
b. cars AND automobiles
c. cars OR automobiles
31. Which gives you FEWEST?
a. cars
b. cars AND automobiles
c. cars OR automobiles
32. Which gives you FEWEST?
a. cars
b. cars AND automobiles
c. cars OR automobiles