Search Strategy

PhD Course SLU Library, AlnarpMarch 2012

Interest area

Biodiversity in urban areas …

Specific question

What is the impact of green spaces on biodiversity in urban areas?

Search tools 1

Phrase search

”urban areas”

”green spaces”

Search tools 2

Truncation

area* = area, areasspace* = space, spaces

Recall versus Precison

R P

Find synonyms

”Quick and dirty”

Find synonyms

• biodiversity/urban ecosystem

• urban areas/urban landscapes/urban floras

• green areas/green corridors

Define search terms

What is the impact of green areas

on biodiversity in urban landscapes?

Search tools 3

OR = broadens the searchOpens up for alternatives!

”green area*” OR ”green space*” OR park*

Search tools 4

AND = narrows the search More conditions to be met!

biodiversity AND ”urban green area*”

Search query scheme

x AND (x OR x) AND (x OR x)

Specific search query

biodiversity AND urb* AND (”green corridor*” OR ”green space*”)

Refine = specify search

• Subject• Year• Language• Document type• Journal • …

References and Citations

• Look back Cited References

• …. and look forward! Times Cited/Cited by

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