| Online
Catalog |
Online
catalog is the electronic version of the library's card catalog.
XPLORE shows what books, journals, videos, CDs, etc.which
Xavier owns. |
| Operators |
Operators
are connectors between words used in searching a database.
For example AND, OR, NOT are Boolean operators. |
| Parameters |
Parameters
are the boundaries of your search. For example, you can search
for journal articles only in the English language or only
published in the last five years. |
| Parenthesis |
Parenthesis
are used to control the order of searching in a database.
If you use parenthesis around a phrase including an AND, OR,
NOT statement that phrase will be searched for first before
the other searching is done. |
| PDF
reader |
Software
needed to view full-text journal articles. |
| Peer
Reviewed |
Journals
that are peer reviewed are scholarly journals. All articles
in the journal have been reviewed by experts in the field
before they have been accepted for publication. |
| Phrase |
A
search term that consists of more than one word. For example,
"iron curtain", "freedom of speech", or
"high school students." |
| Popular
Journals |
Popular
journals or magazines are not peer reviewed. They are intended
for a general audience. |
| Primary
Sources |
Primary
sources are original materials that provide a first person
point of view of an event. Primary sources include diaries,
interviews, letters, etc. |
| Proximity
Operators |
Proximity
operators are words like NEAR or ADJ or W/. They allow you
to specify within a keyword search that you would like two
words to be near each other. It is a way of narrowing your
search and making it more precise. For example, "speaker
NEAR house" could be used to search for Speaker of the
House. |
| Quotation
Marks |
In
some databases, quotation marks are used to search for a
phrase such as "high school students", rather
than searching for the individual words.
|
| Record |
Each
article or book in a database is a record. Each record is
made up of a number of fields. |
| Refereed
Journals |
Refereed journals are peer-reviewed journals. |
| Related
Terms |
Related
terms are synonyms in a thesaurus.You may want to use related
terms in your search to ensure that all results are found. |
| Relevant
Results |
Relevant
results are results that answer your search question. Non
relevant results are often found when keyword searching. |
| Remote
Authentication |
Remote
authentication allows you to access Xavier's research databases
from off campus. Follow our instructions on the library's
homepage.
|
| Research
Topic |
A
research topic is the subject of your research paper or project.
You must define this before you can begin to create your search
strategy. |
| Retrieval
|
Retrieval
is the results of your search. |
