12. Let’s imagine we wanted to look for articles that might help us answer this question: “Does all the violence in some video games make children more violent?”
13. The first thing we need to do is decide what the most important KEYWORDS in that question are.
14. It is important to just use the most concrete, unambiguous words when searching library databases.
15. Our question again: “Does all the violence in some video games make children more violent?”
16. “ Does all the violence in some video games make children more violent?”
17. “ Does all the violence in some video games make children more violent?”
18. “ Does all the violence in some video games make children more violent?”
64. And, each idea was expressed by a single word or phrase.
65. We just learned that there is more than a single way to express two of those ideas.
66. children can be expressed by the phrase “child development” .
67. ” video games” can be expressed by the phrase “computer games” .
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69. Maybe you noticed that these boxes are connected by the Boolean AND.
70. Maybe you noticed that these boxes are connected by the Boolean AND.
71. YES! We are speaking Boolean here. This is a Boolean search statement you are looking at.
72. And, we are about to make it a more complex Boolean search statement.
73. We are are going to use the Boolean OR in two of our search boxes.
74. This is how we can use the two subject phrases we discovered – “computer games” & “child development”
75. This is how we can use the two subject phrases we discovered – “computer games” & “child development”
76. Notice that the search box expanded so we could type “or computer games”
77. There is actually a little shorthand device that would be useful here.
78. Because the root child is part of both of the search terms in that one box, we can do this:
79. Using the * at the end of a string of characters like child* tells the computer program to retrieve all forms of that word, including child child’s children childhood and, of course, any phrases including any of those words. It’s like you said this: child or child’s or children or childhood
103. That link will take you to a list of the issues of the Journal and you will still have to search for that specific article.
104. If we do not have access to the journal in a database, but only in its PRINT form, then this option will be at the top.
105. If we do not have a subscription to this journal at all, you will get this option.
106. If you click on that, you will be asked to log in using your ACCESS card barcode, and you can request a copy of the article be sent to you by email.