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How to ... Using MyCourse
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Searching MyCourse
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Searching techniques |
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MyCourse searches can be done from the Basic
Search screen. To do a basic search: |
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Enter
your keywords in the search box provided. |
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If
you wish to search your keywords as a string of words,
such as a phrase or a title, click the As
a phrase? Yes option. |
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Use
the Field to search drop
down menu to limit your search to a particular field.
For example: Keyword All Fields,
Course Code, Course Name, Title Keyword, Author Keyword, Lecturers Name. |
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Use
the Limit search radio
buttons to limit to the type of material. For example:
Exam Papers or Study Kits. |
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Advanced searching provides
you with more options than the Basic search. For example, it
allows you to search by
ISBN and
Call Number. The search form also provides a space to
do more complex keyword searching across a number of different
fields. |
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The Browse
function allows you to scroll through
an alphabetical index. Indexes available include
Course Code, Course Name, Title Beginning
with, Lecturers Name and many
others. |
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you have entered your search and selected the appropriate options
click the Find button. A new screen with a list of results will
appear. Whichever
type of search you use there are a number of things to keep
in mind when entering your keywords or phrases in the search
screen. These include: |
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| Boolean
Operators |
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Boolean operators AND,
OR, NOT can be used in your search. |
Example:
The AND, OR and NOT operators
buildings AND
london
looks for both of the terms buildings
and london
college
ORuniversity
looks for either or both of these
terms
chip NOT
potato will eliminate
records with the term potato |
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Boolean Operators |
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no Boolean operators are used the Boolean AND
is assumed. |
Example:
Entering terms without a boolean operator
greenhouse gases will look for greenhouse
AND
gases |
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| Phrase
Searching |
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the As a phrase? Yes
option to search for an exact phrase or title. |
Example:
Searching phrases
Choose the As a phrase,
Yes,
option if you wish to search on the exact
phrase greenhouse
gases or the title Harvard
Business Review |
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| Truncation
/ Wildcards |
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the ? character to
search for matches which contain portions of words.
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Example:
Using truncation / wildcards
environment?
= environment, environments, environmental
?ology
= anthropology, archaeology, psychology
etc.
alumi?m
= aluminum, aluminium |
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