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Silver Platter
Search Features Chart
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And | Or | Author | Document Type Truncate | Word Proximity | Words in Article Title | Journal Title |
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WITH finds words in the same FIELD - (no order)
NEAR finds words in the same SENTENCE - (no order)
near# (1-50) specifies how many intervening word
there may be between the terms (no order).
wom?n near50
law with
(culture or society)
legislative adj action
Note that the parenthesis match, i.e. there are as many
open as closed parenthesis.
Note. Authors' names may be written:
dt=books
ANDExplanation
OR
(children
or child)
and (violence
or
aggression) and
television
Explanation
Find the ROOT of a word - end it with *
child* and (violence or aggression) and (television or tv)
Explanation
USE FEWER CONCEPTS
Decreasing the
number of concepts will
increase the number of
articles
child* and (violen* or aggress*)
and (television or tv)
Explanation
USE MORE CONCEPTS
Increasing the
number of concepts will
decrease the number of
articles
child* and (violen* or aggress*)
and (television or tv) and
parent*
Explanation
Searching
Specify how close the search terms should be from one another.
Explanation
to words in
ARTICLE TITLE
If you use parenthesis they
must match
Explanation
Limit Search to a
SPECIFIC JOURNAL
and (Kansas-Journal-of-Law-and-Public-Policy)
in jn
Explanation
to SPECIFIC AUTHOR
lastname firstname or firstname lastname
Explanation
to Document Type
dt=book-review
dt=case
dt=feature-article
dt=symposium
Explanation
Records
child* and
violence and (television or tv) and
y in pei
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And |
Concepts |
Reduce the number of concepts. Instead of writing about how
violence on television affects children - write about how violence
in any form affects children: violence and children.
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Add an additional concept. Instead of writing about how
violence on television affects children - write about the role
of the parent in the matter of television violence
and its effect, if any, on children:
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Using AND
The command AND requires that the words on either
side of it be somewhere in any articles retrieved; but,
the words need not be close to each other nor do they
have to be discuss the relationship between them.
If you find that the articles retrieved are not related to your topics because your concepts are discussed in different parts of the article try using Word Proximity.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - FINDING MORE USING OR
OR allows the addition of similar words
(synonyms).
This increases the change of finding
additional articles.
Step 1 - For each word in the search statement list
additional words with the same or similar meanings.
Rule 2. OR requires only one term to be present - more than one may be present but only one is required.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - FINDING MORE USING TRUNCATION.
Instead of searching for children - search for child *. This tells the computer to find ALL words which start with the letters immediately preceeding the * no matter how long they are.
Note that this search is a work-saving version of:
Either search will find the related words - child, children, childs, childhood and will likely increase the number of records found.
Some cautions and some additional information concerning TRUNCATION.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Limit the search to the title.
Specifying a TITLE search instructs the computer to search for the key words or phrases only in the TITLE FIELD. The rationale for such a search is that if the words or concepts are found in the title, it is more likely the book or article will be directly related to the subject being searched
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Find articles by a specific author.
Note. Authors can be written lastname firstname, or
firstname lastname |
Authors will frequently write more than one article on a subject. If you find an author who has written an article you particularly like, search for additional articles by that author. They may be related to your topic.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Find articles from a specific journal or magazine.
Assignments are frequently constructed suggesting that certain periodicals, journals or magazines would be more helpful than others. And in your studies you may find particular periodicals more useful than others. This search demonstrates how you can limit a search to a specific periodical, journal or magazine title.
Because you are limiting to only one title using this method you may find you have to reduce the number of concepts or increase the use of OR.
A Journal Title Search is an example of FIELD SEARCHING.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Word Proximity
Designate how close to each other you want your concepts. WITH finds words in the same FIELD.
NEAR finds words in the same SENTENCE
The rationale for requiring words to be close to one another is that there is more likely to be a discussion of the relationship between those words than if they were far apart.
If the word television is found only in the first paragraph of a 10 page article and the word violence is only in the last paragraph of this article it is unlikely that there will be any discussion of violence. By requiring these two words to be closer to each other television near violence (either word may come first) there is a much, much better chance of there being a discussion of television violence.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Limit to only Periodical Articles or Documents
.For any number of reasons it may be necessary to limit a search to a particular type of publication. Your professor may require that you find only periodical information. To avoid the frustration of finding documents you wish were articles use the following feature:
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b. The example below will retrieve only Criminal Justice Abstracts Documents.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Limit to Articles with Special Features
.Criminal Justice Abstracts includes in its description of articles special descriptions to alert readers whether the article is a research article, a classroom guide, or heavy with statistics.
List of selected features:
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - Save Money - E-mail Search Results
An additional advantage is that you now have an electronic copy of your search results making it possible to "cut-and-paste" quotations directly into your paper. You can also "cut-and-paste" the citation information for accurate citations and work cited lists.
Conduct a search as usual. Searches produce a Results List.
e-mailing can be accomplished from:
If you wish to e-mail from the full-list you will have to make a choice on the e-mail screen:
Which records do you want to mail?
Records displayed on the previous page
First [choice] records in the current search:
Marked records
To produce a Marked List place a check in the box at the extreme left of the article's title for each article wanted.
When all the articles for e-mail have been selected click on MARKED LIST box at the very top of the page. The resulting list will contain only the articles which have been MARKED. You may delete articles from the list by clicking on the checks in the MARKED BOXES. This will remove the check from the box.
TO E-MAIL:
Note the box marked E-MAIL at the top of either the RESULTS LIST or the MARKED LIST page.
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Click on the E-MAIL box. Fill in the information
as requested.
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Enter an address and optional subject message and click on the box labeled MAIL.
It may take as much as 15 minutes (and sometimes more) before the articles are sent to your e-mail address. You will receive one e-mail which will contain all the articles you have requested.
The solution is to use the ?
the Wildcard symbol.
WILDCARD
Using cat? limits the truncation to
one letter - in this case cats.
The ? symbol can also be
used internally: - wom?
n finds woman and women.
? can be used in multiples.
Take baby - - bab???
- finds baby, babs, babes and babies
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