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| Symbol used to represent all possible endings of a search term. |
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| Consider various components of the whole and try to describe the inter-relationships between them. |
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| A descriptive list of items that are owned or accessible by a particular library |
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| Act as judge or critic, appraise. |
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| A special character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that you can use to represent one or more characters. |
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| Examine the various sides of a question and try to reach a judgment. |
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| Customised meta search across up to ten of the library's databases simultaneously. |
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| An organised collection of information records that can be accessed electronically. In the Library, this includes indexing and abstracting databases, citation databases or databases of fulltext journal articles. |
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| Material that has been read by experts in the field to evaluate its validity before publication |
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| Co-operative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries |
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| A bibliography in which each citation is accompanied by a note that describes, explains or evaluates the publication referred to. |
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| Automated program that roams the internet and builds an index of what it finds. |
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| A systematic guide to the contents of a file, document, or group of documents |
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| Network connecting millions of computers around the world through the international telecommunications system. |
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| Formal description of a book, article or other information source containing all details essential to identify the item. Sometimes called a reference. |
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| A means of combining searches to broaden or narrow search results by using the logical operators AND, OR, and NOT to indicate relationships between terms. |
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| List of sources you have referred to directly in your essay. |
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| Author date citation system. |
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| Give an example, explain, draw a figure. |
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| A brief summary outlining the main content of a journal article or other document |
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| A publication that is produced at regular intervals such as magazines, journals and newspapers. |
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| Present the different aspects of a question or problem |
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| Truncation in search activities |
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o Organ* (brings up all words starting with Organ…) |
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| Wildcards in search activities |
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Used for different spelling of the same word – organi?ation gives both organisation and organization |
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- They are convenient to use
- They allow you to search through hundreds (thousands) of journal titles and issues simultaneously
- Usually discipline-based: business, law, computer science, psychology etc.
- Updated regularly
- The articles they contain provide the main form of primary source material and your lecturers expect you to use them
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