Advanced Search Skills

GEN1000 Perspectives on General Education

• Advanced Search for your assignment

• Before your search

Advanced Search in SearchPlus

Job Discrimination Female Japan

Work Unfair Woman Japanese

Employment Inequity Women

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Advanced Search in SearchPlus Advance Search for your assignment

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Advanced Search in SearchPlus Advance Search for your assignment

• Boolean Operators

Female OR Women Female AND

Discrimination

Female Discrimination Female Women

AND OR

Employ* Employer

Employ* NOT Employer

NOT

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Advanced Search in SearchPlus

Truncation ◦ Use * symbol to search words with varied endings: employment, employee, employees

employ*

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Advanced Search in SearchPlus

• Wild card

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Advanced Search in SearchPlus

• Phase search

– Search two words together in exact order

– E.g. Use “Job discrimination” to find “job” and “discrimination” next to each other

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Advanced Search in SearchPlus

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Stop Word

◦ In search engines, a stop word is a commonly used

word that a search engine has been programmed to

ignore

◦ E.g. “the”, “a”, “an” and preposition

Advanced Search in SearchPlus

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Suggested Search Strategy

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Suggested Search Strategy