The Literature
Search
Aurelie Gandour
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London
Write either:– The main thing you’d like to
learn from the session;
– Or a concern or pressing question you have.
Look at the card you now have.
If you agree with what’s written on it, or have the same question, place a tick on the right side.
Keywords
Activity…
• Come up with a search topic
Tip: try and think of questions from students that have come up in the past.
Make your topic slightly complex (it should contain at least 3 different concepts).
• Write your topic at the top of a sheet of paper.
Activity…
• Exchange topics with the other groups!
• Read your new topic.
Analyse the concepts its made of and come up with as many possible keywords for each of them as you possibly can.
Activity…
• Give your topic to another group!
… and have a look at another group’s topic.
• What do you think of the concepts and keywords that they came up with?
Can you come up with more?
Your search friends: Boolean Operators
Boolean Operators: an exercise
We’re all
Jedi or Sith
A New
Static
Induction
Thyristor
(SITh)
Analytical
Model
Who Wins:
Yoda or
Sith? A
Proof that
Financial
Markets are
Seldom
Efficient
“Only a Sith
Thinks Like
That”:
Llewellyn’s
“Duelling
Cannons”, 1
to 7
Cryogenic
operation of
static
induction
(SIT/SITh)
devices
Switching
performanc
es of SITh
with buried-
gate
structure
Sith NOT Induction
Boolean Operators: an exercise
We’re all
Jedi or Sith
Who Wins:
Yoda or
Sith? A
Proof that
Financial
Markets are
Seldom
Efficient
“Only a Sith
Thinks Like
That”:
Llewellyn’s
“Duelling
Cannons”, 1
to 7
Switching
performanc
es of SITh
with buried-
gate
structure
Sith NOT Induction
From Death
Rays to
Light
Sabers:
Making
Laser
Weapons
Surgically
Precise
High-risk
Lead
Extraction:
The Blade
and the
Lightsaber
Making a
light-saber:
a story
The
butcher, the
baker, the
light saber
maker
Squirrel
lightsaber: a
species
neutralizing
rattlesnake
venom
LightsaberOR
Light Saber
Boolean Operators: an exercise
High-risk
Lead
Extraction:
The Blade
and the
Lightsaber
The
butcher, the
baker, the
light saber
maker
Squirrel
lightsaber: a
species
neutralizing
rattlesnake
venom
LightsaberOR
Light Saber
Boolean Operators: an exercise
The Science
of Star
Wars:
integrating
technology
Using Star
Wars’
supporting
characters
to teach
about
psychopa-
thology
The
Adoption of
Buddhist
Motifs in
Star Wars
The boycott
of Star Wars
by
academic
scientists
Discursive
Choices:
Boycotting
Star Wars
between
Science and
Politics
Star Wars AND Science
The
butcher, the
baker, the
lightsaber
maker
Boolean Operators: an exercise
The Science
of Star
Wars:
integrating
technology
Discursive
Choices:
Boycotting
Star Wars
between
Science and
Politics
Star Wars AND Science
Boolean Operators: an exercise
The Science
of Star
Wars:
integrating
technology
Discursive
Choices:
Boycotting
Star Wars
between
Science and
Politics
Star Wars AND Science
Boolean Operators: an exercise
The boycott
of Star Wars
by
academic
scientists
Quotation marks
Truncation
Wildcard
• Get in pairs
• Draw a set of 3 resources
• Try and figure out if youcan use those threetools in each database
Fields
• Get in pairs
• Use the same 3 resources as in the last activity
• Look up each resource: can you use fields in them?
• For each resource, note the 5 most usefulfields you could recommend to students
Limiters
• Get in pairs
• Use the same 3 resources as in the last activity
• Look up each resource: can you use limiters in them?
• For each resource, note the 5 most usefullimiters you could recommend to students
Thesaurus
• Pick a database and suggestedkeywords
• Access the database’s thesaurus
• Draw a « family tree » for one of the suggested keywords, includingbroader terms, narrowers terms, and related terms.
Break!
Guided Search
Search Equation Puzzle
Keyword
Title
Author
Subject
term
Create search equations based
on this topic…
Have a look at your 3 databases.
Could you write this kind of complex search equation in one of them?
Where? How?
What does a user’s question
look like?
Examples:
• How to get children to help each other in kindergarten?
• Family office vs. private banking in Luxembourg
• EU’s charter of fundamental rights and is influence on tax law
• Get in groups
• Associate differenttypes of users withdifferent types of results.
>> Which type of resultswould you recommend for which type of users?
Which Resource for Which User?
• Get in groups
• In the table, write down 5 different subject matters
• Associate different types of users withdifferent types of resources.
>> Which type of resources would you use to help which type of users?
• Get in pairs
• Decide who will be the « student » and who willbe the « librarian »
• Students, look up what’s on your card…
• Librarians, try and answer their question!
• Go!
Break!
The needs of a thorough search…
Federated searches…
An iterative process…
Following the thread
Activity: Action Plan
Topic suggestion:
“Students dropping out of school, the relationship between schools and families, and how parents of foreign origin are perceived.”
Deadline: the search needs to be completed before 1/07/2016
Advanced functions of databases
• Get in pairs.
• Go through at least 5 databases and check if they offer the following advanced functions:
– Search history
– Saving searches
– Saving results
– Creating email alerts
– Generating RSS feeds
Questionnaire
Thank you for coming!
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