| Scholarly
Journals |
Scholarly
Journals present research findings. |
| Scope
Note |
The
scope note in a thesaurus gives the definition of a term and
the date it was first used in the thesaurus. |
| Search
Engine |
Search
engines locate sites on the Internet. |
| Search
Strategy |
Combining
the concepts of your research using 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT'. |
| Secondary
Sources |
Secondary
sources are materials that provide interpretations, analyses,
explanations, critiques, restatements and descriptions of
primary sources. |
| Subject-specific
Database |
Databases
that cover a subject area. There are medical databases, education
databases, business databases etc. |
| Subject
Terms |
Subject
terms are the words which have been assigned by an indexer
or cataloger to a book or an article in a database. |
| Synonyms |
Synonyms
are words that have the same meaning. |
|
Thesaurus
|
A
thesaurus lists the subjects used in a database. Not every
database has a thesaurus.
|
| Truncation |
Truncation
is a technique for searching all the variations of a word.
For example Teach* will bring you teaches, teachers, teaching,
teacher. Some symbols of truncation are * or #. |
| Truncation
Symbol |
Truncation
symbols vary from database to database but are often an asterisk
(*) or the pound sign (#). |
|
Tutorial
|
Web-based
exercises which you will work through to help you understand
the basic concepts of research.
|
| URL |
Uniform
Resource Locator. This is a standardized address
for an internet resource. |
| Update
Date |
The
date when the web page was last modified. |
| Venn
Diagram |
Venn
diagrams are frequently used to represent graphically the
results of combining basic Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). |
| Viewers |
Software
needed to read full-text articles. |
| Webpage |
Webpages
are found on the Internet or World Wide Web. |
| World Wide Web |
This is the collection of websites found on the Internet. |
| Xtreme Subject Guides |
Library subject guides are guides to research databases, books, journals, media, websites, a librarian liaison and context-specific help for each academic program at Xavier University. |
