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Introduction to Searching - Developing the skills
Module 4 - Too many results? How to narrow your search
- Applly limits (eg, year of publication)
- See the impact of phase searching on the results
- See the impact of searching in the title and abstract
- Amend your search startegy to reduce the number of results
Module 5 - Too few results? How to broaden your search
- See the impact of removing limits to your search
- See the impact of removing keywords from your search
- Add different endings to a search team
- Amend your search stratgy to increase the number of results
Module 6 - Searching with subject headings
- Describe what a subject heading (or thesaurus term) is used and why it is used
- Selectrelevant subject headings for our search
- Understand the difference betwen subject headings and keywords
- Broaden or narrow a search using subject headings
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| First contributed: | 01 May 2025 |
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