LIS 601 Search Strategy

Principles & TacticsEncyclopedias

Fall 2010

Lori Bell

University of Hawaii

Library and Information Science Program

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Ex. 1B Check: Review Your Search Results

1. Search strategy page is included for each search (Search History).

2. Circle or highlight database name.

3. Circle or highlight your search terms in the record.

4. Mark other CV and NL in the record you could use to improve the search.

5. Evaluate the relevance of the item to the query:a) On Target, Peripheral, or Off Topic

b) Explain your rating

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Successive Fractions Strategy1. Book review of The Cult of Information by Theodore

Roszak. Ebsco Academic Search Premier 2010

Search Terms ItemsCULT (Default Fields Title, Author, Subjects [Descriptors/Identifiers], Institution Name, Abstract)

7167

CULT and INFORMATION 470

CULT and INFORMATION and ROSZAK 7

CULT and INFORMATION and ROSZAK (Select a Field/AU Author)

0

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When to Reduce the Set?2. Criticism of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

CSA MLA Bibliography 2010

Search Statement Terms Items

AWAKENING (Anywhere: NL + CV) 781

AWAKENING and CHOPIN

(Anywhere: NL + CV)

382

AWAKENING and KATE and CHOPIN (Anywhere: NL + CV)

381

AWAKENING and KATE and CHOPIN’S (Anywhere: NL + CV)

151

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How to Define the Set?2. Criticism of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

CSA MLA Bibliography 2010

Search Statement Terms ItemsCHOPIN, KATE (Descriptor: DE=) 697

CHOPIN, KATE (AU) 0

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How to Focus the Set3. Article on “parents participating in the classroom.”

Ebsco ERIC 2010

Search Statement Terms Items

PARENT PARTICIPATION (Select a Field)(treats terms as a phrase & singly with stemming)

18,755

PARENT PARTICIPATION (SU Descriptors/CV)

15,890

PARENT PARTICIPATION (SU/CV) and CLASSROOM (Default NL; SU/CV)

2,373 (NL)

637 (CV)

PARENTS and PARTICIPATING and CLASSROOM (Select a Field NL)

389

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How to Focus the Set4. “Scientific study of people who feel bad when the weather

changes”. APA PsycNet 2010

Search Statement Terms Items

(EMOTIONAL STATES) Index Terms 22,418

(EMOTIONAL STATES) Index Terms

and (WEATHER) Any Field

36

(SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER) Index Terms [792] and (TREATMENT) Index Terms [44,418]

28

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Which is the Best Set? 5. Performance consulting & human performance technology

ABI/Inform Global 2010

"human performance technology" [121] and "performance consulting" [57] (citn & ab)

7

(SU) HUMAN PERFORMANCE and [278]

"performance consulting" [57 (citn/abstract)]

5

HPT (citn/abstract)

"performance consulting" and HPT

202

5

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How to Focus the Set with CV 6. Chronic fatigue Ebsco CINAHL 2010

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

[Select a Field CV & KW/NL]

903

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME and (THERAPY or TREATMENT) [Select a Field CV & KW/NL]

415

MM FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC [1069] MW TREATMENT [81,700]

76

MH FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC [1317] and MW TREATMENT

86

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Exercise: Which is the CV Strategy?

4. Scientific study of people who "feel bad when the weather changes."

A. atmospheric conditions (kw)

B. atmospheric conditions (su)

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Exercise: Which is the CV Strategy?

6. Recommendations for people diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome

A. Chronic fatigue treatment

B. Fatigue syndrome, chronic--therapy

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Exercise: Which is the CV Strategy?

Find a recent article on astronomical observatories in Hawaii.

A. astronomy (su) AND Hawaii

B. astronomy AND Hawaii

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Exercise: Which is the CV Strategy?

Find articles on "the role of mediators in divorce"

A. DE= divorce and DE= mediation

B. Divorce mediators role

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Which is the Best Set? Divorce Mediators PsycNet 2010

DE= DIVORCE

DE= MEDIATION

5960

3275

DE= DIVORCE and DE= MEDIATION 391

KW= DIVORCE and KW= MEDIATORS 216

KW= DIVORCE and KW= MEDIATORS and KW= ROLE

38

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Encyclopedias

Enkyklios paideia

1451 printing press invented

1368-1644 Ming Dynasty Yung Lo Encyclopedia (Yongle)

Conceptual organization

1701 alphabetical order

1751-80 Denis Diderot’s L’ Encyclopédie

1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica

1829 Encyclopedia Americana

Mid-1980s-1990s electronic encyclopedias

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Online Encyclopedias Encyclopedia Americana Online

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

World Book Online

World Book Discover 2008 [K-12 easy-read articles]

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan

Grove Music Online

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science [in

press 3rd Edition, 2009]

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Online Community Encyclopedias

Wikipedia (2001-) Founder Jimmy Wales Open source model, online community 500k 3 million entries; 14k hits per second Anonymous entries; no experts allowed Many languages

Wikipedia Alexandria Conference 2008 650 wikipedians attended

WikiAnswers service

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Wikipedia Evaluation Criteria

1. Does the content reflect an accurate summary of the cited material?

2. How reputable are the cited sources?

3. What information in the cited sources, if any, is not reflected in the entry?

4. What are the cited authors’ credentials?

5. What biases, if any, does the article reflect?

6. What other sources, if any, does the entry ignore that are important to the arguments in the entry?

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Online Community Encyclopedias Citizendium (2006-)

Founder Larry Sanger Open source model, online community Signed, authoritative entries

Knol (2008-) Google Defined as “a unit of knowledge” Signed, user-generated entries

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Evaluating Encyclopedias

Scope Quality of content Authority Accuracy Currency Ease of Use Arrangement

Audience Format Cost Objectivity Illustrations Index Bibliographies

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Problems with Encyclopedias

1. Leaving out important entries

2. Shortening or leaving out important

information

3. Objectivity without interpretation

4. Over-emphasizing certain topics

5. Obscure or missing index entries

6. Factual errors

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Search Exercise 2: Encyclopedias

1. Search Exercises pp. 12-13

2. Do concept analysis to select search terms.

3. Match search topic to sources.

4. Use the 601 Bibliography Encyclopedias

pages to select sources.

5. Browse reference shelves to select sources.

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Due Next Week

Pathfinder (one copy with both names on it)

Taylor article: PDF online link on syllabus

Kleugel & Ross article, pp. 37-39 only: online link on

syllabus

TEXT CHAPTERS 2 & 14

Handouts pp. 16-19 Reference Interview

Assignments pp. 7-10 Reference Interactions