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Hierarchical The structure of a thesaurus is hierarchical. Each term within the hierarchy lists related terms.
Homonyms Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
Http Hypertext transfer protocol. This is the most common form of address at the beginning of URLs found on the world wide web.
Indexer An indexer is a person who assigns subjects to a document in a database.
Key Concepts Key concepts are the most important parts of your research topic.
Keyword
Keywords are the everyday language terms that you can use to search for articles in a database or books in an online catalog. They are the words found in the title of the book or in the text of the article. They are not terms which have been assigned by an indexer.
Library of Congress Subject Headings The Library of Congress Subject Headings are the subjects used in the online catalog XPLORE.
Limits You can decrease search results by specifying date, material type, or language, and others.
Links Links are highlighted items on a web page which you can click to go to another page.

 

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